Los brindis obreros en La lira popular chilena: A la salud de las clases populares

In the following work, an approach of one of the typical poetic manifestations of Chilean popular culture —toasts— is presented. These toasts, taken from some sheets known as Lira popular chilena, were very common at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, when these publications had their greatest boom. In it, these toasts are compared with other similar compositions produced in other parts of the world, as well as the survival of this tradition to the present day.