Golden Age Spanish Literature: Baroque Era Insights
Baroque Mentality and Spanish Golden Age Literature
Baroque mentality describes a society that distrusts itself and is very concerned about politics, economics, and social norms. It covers topics such as heartbreak, life as a dream, and Stoic philosophy. It separates party-loving societies and luxury in which he is well aware of the issue of honor. It was a period of conservatism and caution on the liberty of expression, in consequence of the Counter-Reformation. The Baroque stresses the artificial, the affectation, and concealment of reality.
A New Aesthetic
Renaissance and Baroque have different opinions on both language and work and also differ in their literary models. The Spanish Golden Age in Spanish is very similar, and the current language becomes the most prominent, and romance are grammars and dictionaries. (The Treasury of the Castilian or Spanish language by Covarrubias)
The Poetry of the Ages of Gold
Stages and Streams
It is divided into two stages:
- First: Follow the tracks and yards of poetry cancionero except Boscan and Garcilaso.
- Second: Influenced by the works of Boscan and Garcilaso, introduces new Italian Renaissance currents.
The Sources
The sources of poetry themes come from the Petrarchan Renaissance and the classical tradition which forms were recovered as the ode and the elegy of love.
The New Forms
- Sonnet: Two fixed rhyming quatrains and two triplets with rhymes variables. The main theme is love.
- The Petrarchan song: Several rooms with hexameters and heptasyllables combined.
Garcilaso de la Vega
His works combine the musical with a perfect structural balance. Since the publication of the works of Garcilaso and Boscan, the Spanish literary scene is extended and enriched. His work is brief, and its main theme is love. In his sonnets and songs, he tells of the love process that causes the pain and melancholy lover. They can be divided into two steps: Prior to 1533, dominated the rhetoric of love and poems cancionero post-1533, which is softer sentimentality and melancholy. Garcilaso composed three Eclogues that chronologically ordered are: The Eclogue second, the first Eclogue which exposes the sentimentality of the position, and the Third Eclogue Renaissance written in stanzas.
St. John of the Cross follows the tradition marked by Garcilaso. His poetry is full of originality and trying to express the mystical experience or the union of soul with the divinity. Among his works are Spiritual Canticle and Living Flame of Love.
The Position of the Baroque
It was a contrasting position where he had a streak mediative and treating the issues with mocking perspective. The Baroque period is the greatest boom in satirical poetry, highlighting the sonnets and romance. The culteranismo and aesthetic concepts were two strands of the Baroque. The culteranismo is also called Gongorism and was based on the resources utilizava Gongora in the Polyphemus and Solitudes. The conceit of the basis of a concept and uses wordplay and paronomasias. Quevedo is the highest representative.
Fray Luis de Leon
He was an Augustinian friar and professor at the University of Salamanca. He was in jail on the orders of the Inquisition. Most of his work in his odes CONSTITUTE using the lira following the example of Garcilaso. Show a different theme and a cultured and refined style. His collection of odes ode begins with the life that lay …! Where you use the topic of the Beatus ille to praise the retired life. His odes are the most prominent addresses his friends from Salamanca. His major works in prose are the names of Christ is a theological treatise on the various names of Christ and the perfect wife is a moral comment about proverbs of Solomon.
Luis de Gongora
His work consists of popular and learned poems poem. Among the highlights learned poems The fable of Polidemo and Galatea, the Solitudes and the Panegyric of the Duke of Lerma. From the mixture of styles and Solitudes Polyphemus comes a new style called culteranismo. The Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea is a mythological poem stanzas composed of numerous innovations that contributed. Contains mythological allusions and convoluted language. The Solitudes was a project of four poems from which Gongora and only wrote the first part of the second. Gongora romancesde composed a hundred different themes (the hard bench Strap) and numerous letrillas (long as I’m hot).