This article presents some examples of the written reception of Francisco de Goya’s painted works complementing the work of Nigel Glendinning, a documented and excellent connaisseur of this aspect of the work of the Aragonese painter. The presentation is organized in a historical-literary sequence that outlines the evolution of Spanish poetry throughout the twentieth century: ‘postmodernista’ poetry, avant-garde, committed poetry, and ‘Novísimos’.