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  • In Spain baroque has also superseded góngorismo, culteranismo, conceptismo, as it is a more general term, free from associations with a single style or with some peculiar critical doctrine or technical device.

    BAROQUE IN LITERATURE REN 1968

  • Yet though culteranismo and conceptismo infected nearly everyone, the century did not lack its big names.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • There are passages which display great gifts in the realm of pure poetry, but too often they are marred by the impertinent metaphors characteristic of _culteranismo_.

    Modern Spanish Lyrics 1899

  • Gongorism, or _culteranismo_, as it was called at the time, swept the minor poets with it, and even those who fought the movement most vigorously, like Lope and Quevedo, were not wholly free from the contagion.

    Modern Spanish Lyrics 1899

  • There were not lacking poets who kept themselves free from taint of _culteranismo_, though they did not join in the fight against it.

    Modern Spanish Lyrics 1899

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