Lope Defending Poetry vs. Lope Writing Poetry: The Conflicts of "Donde Habla Amor Puro"

The pleasure of citation, the reference to authority, the listing of detractors and notable defenders were thus part of the rhetorical design of argumentation and persuasion by proof (Chria) as well as an inherited requirement from the broader hortatory genre known by the Greek term, protreptikos, which as Curtius reminds us utilized conventional catalogs of heroes and detractors in its attempt to persuade.4 The organization of persuasion In contrast to Sidney's Apology for Poetry which was organized around the traditional divisions of a classical oration-exordium, narratio, propositio, partitio, confirmatio, reprehensio and peroratio (Myrick 46-83)-or Soto de Rojas' Discurso sobre la poética organized by the Scholastic-Aristotelian construct of the four causes (material, formal, efficient, final), Lope selects a less rigorous structure for his oration.