NOUN
- an affected elegance of style that was introduced into Spanish literature by the poet Gongora
How To Use Gongorism In A Sentence
- So in the seventeenth century the writers, exhausted by the mental effort of the Renaissance and prevented by the tyranny of kings and the domination of the church from occupying themselves with the great issues of life, turned their minds to gongorism, concettism and such-like toys. The Summing Up
- Seville cathedral, did his share as editor by writing two prefaces, one addressed to Sarmiento de Mendoza, and the other to Olivares who was manifestly expected to pronounce against Gongorism. Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment
- The taint of Gongorism and Marinism attacked all the Seiscentistas, as may be seen in the "Fenix Renascida", and rhetoric conquered style. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- Gongorism and its stylistic excesses, as he clearly shows in his The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
- Gongorism of many passages in Calderon's best pieces, their obscurity and extravagant bombast, should be charged to the account of a meddlesome collector and editor, that is, to Vera Tasis, and not to The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
- Spain was also easily assimilable, since “Gongorism” — the involved style of BAROQUE IN LITERATURE
- Quevedo, who had obtained his copies of Luis de Leon's verses from Manuel Sarmiento de Mendoza, a canon of Seville cathedral, did his share as editor by writing two prefaces, one addressed to Sarmiento de Mendoza, and the other to Olivares who was manifestly expected to pronounce against Gongorism. Fray Luis de Leon
- The origins of Euphuism and of that later form of preciousness which is sometimes called Gongorism and sometimes Marinism have been much discussed, but the last word has certainly not been said on them. A History of Elizabethan Literature
- To Gongorism above all other things may be ascribed the wretched decay in letters which ensued upon the end of the seventeenth century: this canker-worm ate into the heart of literature and brought about its corruption. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
- For some reason not very obvious this collection of verses was not published till 1631 when it was issued by Quevedo, who hoped that it would help to stem the current of Gongorism in Spain. Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment
