The Baroque Poetry of Fernando De Herrera, 1534-1597: Decoro in the Spanish Poetry of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

This study examines the way in which poetry, in this case the poetry of Fernando de Herrera, could function as an expression, and not simply as the result, of significant change in the social and economic ordering in sixteenth and seventeenth century Spanish life. The emergence of this newly defined aesthetic of the secular is revealed in Fernando de Herrera's poetry, in both his awareness and use of this system of "decoro".