Gongorism Definition

gŏnggə-rĭzəm
noun
A highly mannered Spanish literary style characterized by affected diction and strained figures of speech.
Webster's New World

Origin of Gongorism

  • After Luis de Góngora y Argote (1561–1627), Spanish poet

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet.

    From Wiktionary

Gongorism Sentence Examples

  • Next the taint of Gongorism appeared, and the extent to which it affected the literature of Portugal may be seen in the five volumes of the Fenix renascida, where the very titles of the poems suffice to show the futilities which occupied the attention of some of the best talents.

  • Most of the remaining lyricists of the period were steeped in Gongorism or, writing in Spanish, have no place here.

  • Thomas de Noronha and Antonio Serrao de Castro, the first a natural and facile writer, the second the author of Os Ratos da Inquisicao, a facetious poem composed during his incarceration in the dungeons of the Inquisition, while Diogo de Sousa Camacho showed abundant wit at the expense of the slaves of Gongorism and Marinism.

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GGOGON

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