The Love Poetry of Francisco de Quevedo

by Julián Olivares

Book Overview

Francisco de Quevedo was known throughout seventeenth-century Europe as the author of two Spanish best-sellers, the picaresque novel El busc n, and the satirical Sue os. Thoroughly Baroque in style, the poems share many traits with the metaphysical poetry of Quevedo's English contemporaries. His poetry has been a major influence on modern Spanish and Latin American poets. This study of the poetry combines a stylistic analysis with a philosophical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052112249X
• ISBN13: 9780521122498
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"