Poetry and Truth in the Spanish Works of Fray Luis de León (Hardcover)

Poetry and Truth in the Spanish Works of Fray Luis de León By David J. Hildner Cover Image
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A study of the mentality of the 16c Spanish writer, Fray Luis de Le n.

Luis de Le n, poet and Biblical exegete, lived from 1527 to 1591. The study attempts to explain the impression received from his prose and verse works that he intended them to conform to what he believed to exist in Nature, society, and the spiritual world, but that he gave equal attention to their aesthetic form, i.e. the figures and fictions they contain. The following questions are posed: does Fray Luis make any distinction between truth and fiction inthe content of his works, or between poetic language and logical language in their form? If so, does he use any consistent criteria for these distinctions?
Product Details
ISBN: 9781855660175
ISBN-10: 1855660172
Publisher: Tamesis Books
Publication Date: December 17th, 1992
Pages: 192
Language: English
Series: Monografa-As a