Deliverance in the Prison-House: Paradoxes of Self, Culture, and Language in the Writings of Quevedo

Tears in the Desert: Baroque Adaptations of the Book of Lamentations by John Donne and Francisco de Quevedo

“…The resulting slippage of Spain from its former position of world dominance produced an "experiential, historical and even existential agony arising from a tortured alliance." 17 Obviously these two early modern vernacular adaptations of Lamentations, and their two authors, merit closer attention and could be compared on multiple levels. But here I shall focus not on questions of political or personal crisis, nor on affirmations of religious orthodoxy.…”