La estética gongorina como estrategia: sobre el estilo de la Antuerpia de Juan Blázquez Mayoralgo

Abstract

This work studies the function of gongorism in Juan Blázquez Mayoralgo’s Antuerpia (c. 1620-40), epic poem about the capture of the city of Antwerp in the context of the Eighty Years War (1584-1585). It shows how the Petrarchan ideal of beauty, the hyperbatons and cultisms and the passages that evoke Luis de Góngora’s Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea and Soledades contribute to the aggrandizement of the war apparatus of the Austrias and to the vision of the Catholic Monarchy as successor of the Roman Empire.

Keywords

• gongorism
• Early Modern Spanish poetry
• Eighty Years War
• epic poetry
• Fall of Antwerp