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Demons of the Night: Quevedo's Sonnet 'A fugitivas sombras', the melancholy humour and Paracelsus
David Walters
The Modern Language Review, Volume: 106, Issue: 3, Pages: 765 - 778
Swansea University Author: David Walters
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Abstract
In this article I suggest that Quevedo's sonnet 'A fugitivas sombras' cannot be adequately understood merely by reference to a conventional Petrarchist reading. Both the lexical detail and the mood of the poem connect more with the theories of Parcelsus, whose work was known to Queved...
| Published in: | The Modern Language Review |
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| ISSN: | 0026-7937 2222-4319 |
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Modern Language Review
2011
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11416 |
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In this article I suggest that Quevedo's sonnet 'A fugitivas sombras' cannot be adequately understood merely by reference to a conventional Petrarchist reading. Both the lexical detail and the mood of the poem connect more with the theories of Parcelsus, whose work was known to Quevedo, than to Spanish and Italian poets of the period. A more precise analogy is to be found in contemporary writing - both meditative and medical - about melancholy and night visions. Quevedo's sonnet emerges as the product of an age obsessed with the supernatural and the demonic. |
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| Keywords: |
Quevedo. Paracelsus. Melancholy. Love poetry. Spanish Golden Age literature |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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3 |
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765 |
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778 |