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Love Poetry in the Spanish Golden Age. Eros, Eris and Empire.

This monograph seeks to redefine Golden Age culture through re-evaluation of the poetry which lay at the core of that culture's self-image. A considerable body of material, collected and analysed in relation to four major writers (three of canonical status), constitutes the primary corpus, while scrutiny of an immense volume of secondary criticism, spanning centuries, substantiates the book’s broader argument, and reshapes scholarship on individual texts. The intense intertextuality of the period's poetry also impacted upon scope and scale: analysis of the intellectual interplay between the Renaissance and Baroque, a fundamental line of enquiry, involved engagement with extensive Classical material.