Garcilaso De La Vega; a Critical Study of His Life And Works
Garcilaso De La Vega; a Critical Study of His Life And Works
Hayward Keniston
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The latter, although more conventional in its subject matter, testifies to his acquaint- ance with the historian of Charles V and gives an interesting reference to the lat- ter's Democrates. The third of the odes is a typical product of the Renaissance: a pot-pourri of classical reminiscences of the power of Cupid, decked in the form of a dialogue between Venus and her son, wholly without emotion, unrelieved even by the exquisite artistic finish which the AND MONOGRAPHS 276 GARCILASO DE LA VEGA... masters of this school of imitation suc- ceeded in giving to their verse. Without these works we knew that Garcilaso was steeped in the classic Latin poets; through them we see that he, like the other poets of his time, regarded Latin as a language for actual use as an artistic instrument; they make it easier to understand the close affinity which exists between him and Virgil in the Eclogues. He belongs to that great group of the scholar-poets of the Renaissance. HI SPANIC NOTES LIFE AND WORKS 277 CHAPTER IV \^RSIFICATIOX Garcilaso's position as an innovator in poetical form gives especial significance to the technical methods which he followed in these new forms, for it was his verse, rather than that of Boscan, which was the model of the early members of the Italian school in Spain, and as we shall see, it is he who offers the first example of the use of many of the Italian metrical combina- tions.^ The much discussed question of the first appearance in Spain of the hendeca- syllable and of the Italian verse forms, which has been reviewed at length by Menendez y Pelayo in his study of the work of Boscan, - does not concern us here.
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