Entre Góngora y Quevedo

AbstractThis article discusses how Quevedo arrives to the silvas, how that affects the set of compositions that were written in his time, and how ideological and formal issues converged. However, due to his trip to Italy, Quevedo, who planned to write a book of silvas, changes course when he learned of Góngora’s Soledades. It is proposed that Quevedo’s Sermon estoico, which came later, is a kind of answer to the Soledades. But both of these works take different formal and ideological directions.