RODRÍGUEZ CACHÓN, IRENE
No
Forum. World Lit. Stud.
Article
Científica
0.147
18/11/2020
000604500400005
2-s2.0-85101906039
During most of the 16th century, Spanish Poetics was understood as something difficult to figure it out. Therefore, the first poetic standards that organized and fixed the new way of doing poetry - both in their principles and in their uses - did not appear in the Iberian Peninsula until almost the last two decades of the 16th century. However, this fact does not imply that the Spanish poets were not caught up in the new winds of change, which had started early in the same century in Italy. Therefore, some treatises, which seek to explain and systematize a new poetic regulation just all in Spanish, rather than in Latin, begin to appear timidly from 1580 onwards. This article will attempt to propose and summarize four distinctive features that explain why the modern Spanish poetic treatises come so chronologically late regarding the rest of Europe. In addition, it will point out the fundamental aspects of the new modern Spanish Poetics, considering the most significant titles that were published in Spain at the dawn of the Early Modern Age.
Poetics; Classical antiquity; Italian-style; vernacular Spanish; features