‘El canto y lira mía’: The Horatian authorial persona in the work of Fray Luis de León
In this study I discuss the generic implications of Fray Luis’s adoption of the Horatian authorial persona. Firstly, I interpret Ode I as a statement of his poetic programme. Next, I argue that in Ode XXII Fray Luis navigates lyric’s apparent rejection of epic themes by modelling his portrayal of Pe...
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Liverpool University Press
2022
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