HISTORY
OF
SPANISH LITERATURE.
SECOND PERIOD.
The Literature that existed in Spain from the Accession of the Austrian Family to its Extinction, or from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century To the End of the Seventeenth.
(CONTINUED.)
About This Book
The final volume surveys Spanish literature of the early modern period, analyzing poetic genres—satirical and elegiac epistles, pastorals, epigrams, didactic poems, emblems, and descriptive pieces—and evaluates representative practitioners including the Argensolas, Quevedo, Góngora, Garcilaso, Herrera, Lope de Vega, and Cervantes. It traces stylistic shifts toward Horatian and Italian models, contrasts burlesque and Juvenalian satire, and considers how social conventions and political and inquisitorial pressures curtailed personal invective while fostering other forms such as popular ballads, picaresque narrative, and refined courtly verse.