Self-fashioning and poet’s attitude in the ethical correspondances of the Early Renaissance

Clara Marías

doi:10.5565/rev/studiaaurea.213

Abstract

This article endeavours to emphasize the interest of the configuration of the poetic I that the ethical verse-epistles of the early Spanish Renaissance construct, that is, those written in verse by authors born before 1535, whose content intermingles the ethical ideas with the individual experience. Throughout the analysis of the psychological, ethical, and literary configuration of the poetic persona it is possible to show the self-fashioning of the poet and its attitude towards another poet in the correspondance between them: if it is projected as a satisfied or desperate human being, virtuous or sinner, a poetic master or apprentice.

Highlights

Verse by authors born before 1535, whose content intermingles the ethical ideas with the individual experience
Throughout the analysis of the psychological, ethical, and literary configuration of the poetic persona it is possible to show the self-fashioning of the poet and its attitude towards another poet in the correspondance between them: if it is projected as a satisfied or desperate human being, virtuous or sinner, a poetic master or apprentice
Quiero destacar la paralela configuración literaria del sujeto lírico de ambas epístolas, que en ello se asemejan al modelo creado por Diego Hurtado de Mendoza y Boscán, en el que cada «yo» elogia al destinatario y se considera inferior a él, y el que responde reitera la inspiración que le ha supuesto el poema recibido, se entiende que por la mayor facilidad de crear a partir de un esquema previo (con el reto formal que supone, pero con la elección de metro, estrofa y temas resueltos)

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Introduction

A continuación, voy a examinar si la respuesta de Juan Boscán a Diego Hurtado de Mendoza25 mantiene una cierta correlación con la anterior respecto a la presencia del «yo poético»; y terminaré el análisis del sujeto lírico de ambas epístolas comparando cómo se configura en cada una de ellas, si hay similitudes o diferencias, y la relación que se establece entre ambos.

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