Note 896 — Chapter XXIX

Of Quevedo and Calderon I have already spoken; and Montalvan, Zarate, Tirso de Molina, and most of the dramatists of note, might have been added. Cervantes, in his old age, heeded the new school little, but he complains of the obscure style of poetry in his “Ilustre Fregona,” 1613, giving a specimen of it, and alludes to it again in the second part of his Don Quixote, c. 16.