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Definition of Gongorist
1. Noun. A practitioner of the affected elegant style of the Spanish poet Gongora.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gongorist
Literary usage of Gongorist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Spanish Literature by Friedrich Bouterwek, Thomasina Ross (1847)
"He was an admirer and disciple of Gongora, as many of his poems prove; but though
an inveterate gongorist, he was one of the cleverest writers of that ..."
2. History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature by Friedrich Bouterwek (1823)
"HISTORY OF and as many of his poems prove, also a faithful disciple; but though
an inveterate gongorist, he was one of the cleverest writers of that school ..."
3. The Literary History of Spanish America by Alfred Coester (1916)
"... experiments in versification abound. Of the lives of saints in heroic verse,
two especially achieved a certain reputation. The gongorist title, La ..."
4. A History of Spanish Literature by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly (1898)
"His Orfeo (1624) shows signs of wavering, and in his translation, the Farsalia,
which was not published till 1684, he is almost as extreme a gongorist as ..."
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