gongora

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noun a Spanish poet whose work was characterized by an affected elegance of style (1561-1627)

From the genus name; after Antonio Caballero y Góngora.

The dramatists who gathered round Lope as their leader regarded Cervantes as their common enemy, and it is plain that he was equally obnoxious to the other clique, the culto poets who had Gongora for their chief. — Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Other critics have preferred to call them the fantastic or conceited school, the later Euphuists or the English Marinists and Gongorists, after the poets Marino and Gongora, who brought this fashion to its extreme in Italy and in Spain. — From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

Luis de Gongora y Argote

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