Renaissance and Baroque Literature: Key Authors and Styles
THE RENAISSANCE 1
• For Italian influence is nuueva use a metric (hendecasyllables and heptasilavos) and nuuevas estrofascomo the lira, the real octaba, triplets chains, whistles or the most important verse: (the sonnet is composed by 2 k and 2 quartets, trios) also I find new genres as the eclogue, elegy and ode.
• Love is the key issue but it is an impossible love d idealized.
• The nature, always idealized, appear as a confidant of the poet's feelings, k grieves or rejoices with it.
• The most characteristic feature of the style is simplicity and naturalness.
Garcilaso de la Vega
He was a distinguished soldier and poet. His work seems dedicated to Isabel Freire. D 4 is composed songs, an ode, an epistle, two elegies and 38 sonnets and 3 eclogue.
• Your Style: k figures provide abundant musicality and paradoxes and antitheses.
• 1st Sonnet: Garcilaso invites a young couple to take their time before k finishes with its beauty.
• 2nd Sonnet: leverages the mythological d istoria Apollo and Daphne as expressing love d fforma impossible.
Fernando de Herrera
This is the continuation of Garcilaso PRINCIPAL his love poems in the k stresses the poetic images, especially the vocabulary and metaphors related to fire. He composed a poetic work varied (patriotism, love) in the k d stands all positions dedicated to the Countess of gelves.
• 1st Sonnet: sevilla dedicated to his native
• 2nd Sonnet: is a manifestation of love poetry of Herrera.
SAN JUAN DE LA CRUZ
• Works: excel Spiritual Canticle, dark night of the soul and flame of love alive.
• Style: the employment is characterized ablense constant antithesis and paradox, the use of language rustic finish.
LOPE DE VEGA
• Works: rhyming, rhyming sacred, human and divine rhymes of licensed Tomes of burguillos
The Lope de Vega Veers seek EKILIBRIO between substance and form in the classical style. His poetry is notable for its wit and vitality espontaneadad.
• 1st SONNET: from an anecdote of something abituale lirc baroque.
• 2nd SONNET: is moral.
FRANCISCO DE QUEVEDO
• Gender: ensallistica prose, the picaresque novel and poetry.
• Topics: political, philosophical, religious, loving, and burlesque.
• 1 Sonnet: illustration love
• 2nd Sonnet: burlesque is.
Luis de Gongora
• UNTIL 1610: write simple poems, without accumulation of resources.
• Since 1610: A period of great formal complegidad k represents the highest level of culteranismo.
• Style: Worship iigual harvest and reviews.
In the first period corresponds to letrilla burlesque.
BAROQUE
• Economically: bad harvests, the expulsion of the Moors and the demographic crisis the country lead to bankruptcy.
• Socially start conflicts between the bourgeoisie and nobility.
• Policy: Spain begins to lose its economy in Europe, for France and inlaterra.
• Inquisition: institution charged with monitoring religious orthodoxy.