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The 11 pages that link to Baroque literature, each with the reason it gives.

• French Classical LiteratureCompared with: Its shifting forms and exuberance stand against the clarity and control prized by classicist writers.

• Pedro Calderón de la BarcaNarrower topic: Its tensions between seeming and being recur throughout Calderón’s drama.

• Renaissance literatureCompared with: Its heightened style marks a later development beyond many Renaissance ideals of balance.

• Luis de GóngoraNarrower topic: Its taste for elaborate form and striking contrasts frames Góngora’s poetry.

• Nicolas Boileau-DespréauxCompared with: Its taste for exuberance differs from the restraint Boileau promoted.

• CulteranismoNarrower topic: Culteranismo is a specifically Spanish expression of broader Baroque literary practices.

• Thomas BrowneRelated: Browne’s ornate sentences and layered imagery connect him with broader Baroque writing.

• Agrippa d'AubignéRelated: The poem's grotesque images and stark contrasts anticipate features associated with French Baroque writing.

• Paul ScarronNarrower topic: Its taste for spectacle and shifting perspectives provides a wider context for Scarron’s writing.

• Théophile de ViauNarrower topic: Baroque features help explain the expressive range of Théophile’s poetry and drama.

• Juana Inés de la CruzNarrower topic: Its intricate forms and conceits inform Sor Juana’s poetry and drama.