Spanish Folk Songs was first published in 1922 by Houghton Mifflin Company. In “The Spanish People as Poet,” published in Poetry: A Magazine in Verse, Vol. 22, No. 2, Muna Lee reviewed de Madariaga’s book and wrote, “This poet is the Spanish people, selections from whose poetry are here grouped according to mood; the current rising among some charming satiric and occasional pieces, deepening in a dramatic group which makes one wonder why, since a story can be adequately told in four lines, the novel was ever invented […]. In this popular poetry, assonance almost entirely displaces rhyme; and the favorite model is the cuarteta, a song consisting of a single stanza of four lines of which 1 and 3 are unrhymed and 2 and 4 assonanced. Numerous variations of the cuarteta, together with the solea, of three lines, the alegría, of two, and the estribillo, a refrain of three, are illustrated in the scholarly and informative preface. These forms have frequently been borrowed by the modernist poets […].”