Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry

Abstract

This is the first comprehensive study in English of one of the most important bodies of verse in European literature. Seventeenth-century Spanish poetry represents the culmination of a rich Renaissance tradition, and Professor Terry sets out to make this accessible not only to Hispanists but to readers of English, French and Italian poetry, with which it had many points of contact. He deals both with the major poets - Góngora, Lope de Vega, Quevedo, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz - and with the impressively large number of good minor poets, from the Argensolas to Bocángel and Soto de Rojas, whose work is still relatively little read. Drawing upon recent developments in literary criticism as well as paying close attention to individual poems, the book discusses a wide range of issues including the re working of classical and Renaissance models, the importance of rhetoric, and the relationship between author, poem and reader.

On Poetic Topic Modeling: Extracting Themes and Motifs From a Corpus of Spanish Poetry

“…Among the other poets, Luis de Góngora stands out with him the Baroque period begins and he introduced a new style based on complex syntax and complex poetry images; there is also Lope de Vega, who was the most famous poet in that period; and Francisco de Quevedo, who developed several traditional and baroque topics. At the end of the period sor Juana Inés de la Cruz stands out, because she introduced a new feminine point of view about traditional topics (Terry, 1993).…”

Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World

“…Perhaps this is not surprising since there was a long tradition of women brewers, as Judith Bennett among others has documented, and winemaking in particular resides at the intersection of domains women often controlled, including gardening, medicine, and food production. 41 Although gentleman farmers like gentlemen virtuosi instigated, bankrolled, and documented much of the experimentation in gardens, kitchens, and labs, they did not monopolize it, depending on wives, children, and servants. Those figures were not only on the margins assisting.…”

“…The language used by testators in wills certainly suggests that objects may have been seen in this way, with property and domestic fixtures, especially furniture, frequently being bequeathed to a house 'forever'. 41 The dates therefore attest to a specific, brief interaction by a person with an object whose duration will ideally endure past the human who made it or owned it. The date, accompanied by personal details like the owner's names and other short inscriptions like 'pity the poor' or 'fast and pray', becomes a message to posterity, and a way for a woman to stamp her own presence on something which would be circulated, inherited, and which would last beyond her.…”

A computational linguistic approach to Spanish Golden Age Sonnets: metrical and semantic aspects

“…Francisco de Quevedo is an example of this aspect: he wrote quite a lot of funeral sonnets and, and the same time, he used words related to death in satyrical and mainly love sonnets. It is what Terry (1993) calls "ceniza amante" (loving ash), as a specific characteristic of Quevedos's sonnets.…”

“…1 Introduction 16th-and 17th-Centuries Spanish poetry is judge as one of the best period of the History of Spanish Literature (Rico, 1980(Rico, 2000Terry, 1993;Mainer, 2010). It was the time of great, famous and "canonical" Spanish poets such as Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Garcilaso de la Vega or Calderón de la Barca, among others.…”