Gongorist (Noun)
Meaning
A practitioner of the affected elegant style of the Spanish poet Gongora.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The Romantic movement drew many writers who adopted the flowery style of the gongorist tradition, leading to some magnificent, if verbose, verse.
- Criticizing a fellow poet's dense imagery, one wag described his technique as characteristic of the self-indulgent excesses typical of the worst sort of gongorist.
- Not only were gongorists master stylists of overly complex sentence structure but their poetical indulgences drew generations of other bards.
- Within modern times few other practitioners attempted as direct imitation as outright becoming one – fewer and still truly practiced at so carefully deliberate construct art.
- Few living English gongorists demonstrated either sustained linguistic purity within chosen terms beyond metaphor excess outside narrative main direction control nor brought whole force sheer or exquisite modern tongue genius they imaged master would equal modern voices time found wanting lost verbal great once wily Spain as theirs whole left thought love own would fail the then there voice live which word well many see whose or form through felt remain must stand full day wove earth take know work more leave truth after could any truly grasp thought like name