St. John of the Cross: Carmelite friar, along with St. Teresa of Jesus participated in the reform of Caramel. studies in Salamanca.
garcilaso poetry follows the line, write notes x ekiparando vision mystical experience of God through the union of 2 lovers, x lo k, his work is allegorical. 3 works include: dark night of the soul; cantico spiritual flame of love alive.
asceticism: it involves a lifestyle based on rejection of material goods and characterized by a life of simplicity, humility, and devoid of luxuries.
sacrifice themselves for the ascetic is the first step towards the mystic whose aim is the union of soul with god, x through 3 ways: purgative, illuminative and unitive.
Fernando de Herrera: author of humanistic education k published collections of poems composed sonnets cancioon, alegia and pastorals.
Garcilaso de la Vega: ombre represents the ideal of the Renaissance. The work consists of 40 sonnets, 4 songs, the ode to the flower Knidos. 2 elegies, 1 John and 3 eclogue.
sonnets and songs
"poems before 1533: the tone of the rhetoric about loving cancionero. Petrarch's influence.
poems post-1533: k is the sentimentality is softer and melancholy. sonnets mythological past.
Fray Luis de Leon: Augustinian friar and Chairs University of Salamanca. inkision prisoner by the order, charged with translating into the vernacular the singing of the Cathars.
-obra poetica:
metric: employment lira, aunk stanzas use smoothed.
topics: exaltation of virtue domains passions, contemplation of universal harmony created by god musician.
style: new poetic language, refined and redefined, near garcilaso.
Luis de Gongora: Gongora's work the expense of popular and learned poems poems: Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea, the loneliness and the panegyric of the Duke of Lerma.
gongora two styles: based on the concentration of stylistic procedures and is a poetic revolutionary, elitist and remote from the populace. despite allegations of darkness, new forms spread and came to constitute a poetic stream: culteranismo.