This is the first book-length study devoted to the distinctive love poetry produced by the literary academies which dominated literary and social life across Spain during the seventeenth century, offering an insight into an important and neglected aspect of European Baroque culture. The author presents them as both a literary and a social institution, arguing that it is the combination of these two aspects which explains their enduring popularity and the development of their distinctive poetic. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which the academy evolved from and in turn transformed contemporary Italian and Spanish practice. The distinctive nature of its poetry, mixing theerotic and the courtly, the frivolous and the metaphysical, not only debased the prevalent Petrarchan model and so accelerated its decline, but also influenced the verse of poets such as Quevedo, Gongora, and Lope de Vega. Dr JEREMY ROBBINSteaches in the Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Edinburgh.
- ISBN10 1855660490
- ISBN13 9781855660496
- Publish Date 12 March 1997
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 28 May 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Imprint Tamesis Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 204
- Language English