The religious verse of Pedro Espinosa.

Resumen

Pedro Espinosa, as regards his propensity to the Baroque, marks a definite point of advance in the progression from Herrera to Góngora. Most of his poems on religious subjects — such as the canción Al Bautismo de Jesús and the sonnets dated 1605-15 — conform to type: they have the decorativeness, the brilliance of imagery, trie sumptuousness of colour, the preoccupation with every form of Hght to be found in his verses of secular inspiration.