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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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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...

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description 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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