gongorism

He is not free from the bad taste and artificial "gongorism" imported from Spain, but he is clear, popular, and practical, profoundly original and frequently sublime.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

When the young guard banded together to strike their big blow they chose as a standard to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Luis de Góngora, the creator of the hair-splitting "estilo culto" who originated and gave his name to the ingeniously and extravagantly ornamented gongorism.

Nobel Prize in Literature 1977 - Presentation Speech 1977

So in the seventeenth century the writers, exhausted by the mental effort of the Renaissance and prevented by the tyranny of kings and the domination of the church from occupying themselves with the great issues of life, turned their minds to gongorism, concettism and such-like toys.

The Summing Up Maugham, W Somerset 1938

I have spoken of the movement generally, but it passed through many phases, such as arcadianism, gongorism, dubartism; and yet of all these phases euphuism was, I think, the most important: certainly if we confine our attention to English literature this must be admitted.

John Lyly John Dover Wilson 1925

Endowed with literary taste, he writes in good Spanish, and his style is free from the gongorism of his time.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

But what concerns us here is the fact that when Shakespeare wrote, although he yielded too much now and then to the passion for gongorism and euphuism which had spread all over Europe, it was against the nature of his genius to be influenced by the contemporary passion for allegory.

Old Familiar Faces Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

It is hard to imagine the master-dramatist of the world — it is hard to imagine the poet who, by setting his foot upon allegory, saved our poetry from drying up after the invasion of gongorism, euphuism, and allegory — it is, we say, hard to imagine Shakespeare, if he had conceived and written such lovely episodes as those of the ‘Idylls of the King,’ so full of concrete pictures, setting about to turn his flesh-and-blood characters into symbolic abstractions.

Old Familiar Faces Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873