Poetry and Truth in the Spanish Works of Fray Luis de LeónA study of the mentality of the 16c Spanish writer, Fray Luis de León. Luis de León, poet and Biblical exegete, lived from 1527 to 1591. The study attempts to explain the impression received from his prose and verse works that he intended them to conform to what he believed to exist in Nature, society, and the spiritual world, but that he gave equal attention to their aesthetic form, i.e. the figures and fictions they contain. The following questions are posed: does Fray Luis make any distinction between truth and fiction inthe content of his works, or between poetic language and logical language in their form? If so, does he use any consistent criteria for these distinctions? |
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
FRAY LUISS DOCTRINE OF NAMES | 25 |
THEOLOGICAL REASONING IN DE LOS NOMBRES DE CRISTO | 41 |
BIBLICAL COMMENTARIES IN SPANISH | 72 |
FRAY LUIS AS TRANSLATOR OF THE CLASSICS | 113 |
ORIGINAL POEMS | 144 |
CONCLUSION | 171 |
LIST OF WORKS CITED | 174 |
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aesthetic agua alma amor ansí Aquinas aunque Biblical bien Bride Bridegroom chapter Charles Marty-Laveaux Christ Christian cielo clause commentary concepts cosas Cratylus creatures deleyte Dios divine doctrine eclogue elements Elihu's emphasis added Esposo eternal Eucharist example experience expression fiction figurative Fray Luis Fray Luis seems Fray Luis's Fray Luis's translation Furthermore God's gozo Hebrew Horace Horace's human imagery images intellect interpretation Job's language literal logical Luis de León lyrical Macrí Marcelo meaning metaphor mind moral narrative natural neo-Platonic Noreña notion object obra original poems palabras Pasiphae passage pastoral Phaethontidas phrase Pindar pleasure poesía poet poetic poetry present prose Psalm Pyrrha razón readers refer rhetorical says Scholastic sense sensorial sentence sentido Siglo de Oro Silenus Silenus's Song of Songs soul Spanish Spanish language speaker spiritual stanza strophic form theological things thought truth union verb verdad verse Virgil's Vulgate words