Aspectos del sustrato clásico en la poesía de Meléndez Valdés

Abstract

In the poetry of Meléndez Valdés, boht in its jovial and meditative facets, there frequently merge loans from the classical tratition. The present work reviews many of these echoes, ranging from rethorical devices such as the recusatio or the priamel, subgenres, such as the Genethlíacon, or from commmonplaces, such as the exclusus amator, to the meticulous traces of a specific linguistic configuration, which refer to a specific model of classical poetry. The poetry of Meléndez, despite being charged with sentimentality at times, lies beyond the great frontier of Romanticism.