Francisco de Quevedo was known throughout seventeenth-century
Europe as the author of two Spanish best-sellers, the picaresque
novel El buscon, and the satirical Suenos. 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
interpretation in the broad sense. It is thus an aesthetic and
existential study and concentrates on the love sonnets of 'High
Style'. The poet confronts the courtly tradition with experience,
taking a stand against its ethical restrictions. By means of irony
and conceptismo, the wit displayed in his poetic conceits, Quevedo
attempts to solve the conflict between ideal love and sensual
passion. Professor Olivares also shows that the thoughts and
emotions evoked by the experience of love are inseparable from
Quevedo's anguished world vision.
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