Arthur Terry

PEDRO DE ESPINOSA AND THE PRAISE OF CREATION

In a recent lecture Professor E. M. Wilson draws attention to the techniques of religious meditation which lie behind certain types of seventeenth-century poetry. This is an important question, though, as far as Spain is concerned, it has yet to be studied with anything like the interest shown in poetry of the Italianate tradition. The work of Pedro de Espinosa, which is the subject of this article, is a case in point.