Question

The treatise The Art of Ingenuity defined a poetic ideal from this country as “an act of the understanding that expresses the correspondence between objects,” contrasting with a rival’s “cultivated Lutheranism.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this country where two opposing poetic styles developed in the 17th century. A poet from this country who used one of those styles attacked a rival who used the other by comparing his large nose to a swordfish.
ANSWER: Spain [or España]
[10e] Francisco de Quevedo displayed the epigrammatic conceptismo style in an essay collection titled for these things. Segismundo takes the Polish throne in Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s play titled Life is [one of these things].
ANSWER: dreams [or sueños; accept Life is a Dream or La vida es sueño; accept visions]
[10h] Quevedo and this author of The Art of Ingenuity championed conceptismo. This Jesuit priest wrote The Art of Worldly Wisdom and the novel El Criticón.
ANSWER: Baltasar Gracián [or Baltasar Gratian]
<HG, European Literature>

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UC Berkeley BUC Berkeley A1010020
UCLAUCSD010010
Carnegie Mellon BMichigan State0000
Michigan DCase Western B0000
KenyonCase Western A010010
Michigan AOhio State A1010020
Carnegie Mellon AMichigan B1010020
Ohio State BMichigan C1010020
Virginia ALiberty A010010
Liberty BLiberty C0000
DukeSouth Carolina0000
UNC CUNC D0000
UNC BWake Forest010010
Virginia Tech AWilliam & Mary1010020
Indiana AChicago D1010020
WashU AIllinois B010010
WashU BIllinois C1010020
Illinois AIndiana B1010020
Chicago CMissoui S&T010010
Chicago BMissouri010010
Georgetown ANorthwestern B1010020
Notre Dame CGeorgetown B010010
Stanford BIowa1010020
Notre Dame ANorthwestern A010010
PurdueNotre Dame B1010020
AlbertaUBC1010020
UW BUW A010010
Bruin AGeorgia Tech C100010
Louisville AGeorgia Tech A1010020
Vanderbilt AAlabama A0000
Cambridge CCambridge B0000
Cambridge DSouthampton B100010
Cambridge EOxford C010010
Imperial ALSE1010020
Southampton ANYU C0000
Oxford ACambridge A10101030
Oxford BImperial B010010
ManchesterSheffield010010
BristolWarwick A0000
Warwick BDurham0000