Jesuitical Theological Poetry and Baroque Poetry – Francisco de Quevedo’s Un Heráclito Cristiano (1613)

• Autores: Christian Wehr
• Localización: Christian Discourses of the Holy and the Sacred from the 15th to the 17th Century / coord. por Teresa Hiergeist, Ismael del Olmo, 2020, ISBN 978-3-631-80081-2, págs. 119-142
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • With the publication of Ignacio de Loyola’s Exerzitia spiritualia (1548), spiritual meditation leaves its traditional sacral space and finds its way into various fields of cultural life. This triumph of the Exerzitia in particular can be traced to its synthetizing power. Jesuitical meditation is able to effectively unite the contradictory, spiritual, and secular element of baroque subjectivity. There is no better example for displaying the mentioned dual function than in the secular and sacral works of the great baroque poet Francisco de Quevedo, as will be shown by analyzing his cycle of poems Un Heráclito Cristiano from 1613.