Juan de Morales 416 Agustin de Texada, &c. 417 Rise of a new irregular and fantastical style in Spanish poetry 428 Gongora and his Estilo Culto--the Cultoristos--the Conceptistos 431 Two dramatic poets of the age of Lope de Vega 441 Christoval de Virues 442 Perez de Montalvan 446 Novels in the age of Cervantes and Lope de Vega 450 Progressive cultivation of the historical art--Mariana 455 Fluctuation of Spanish taste from the classic to the corrupt style 459 Quevedo 460 Character of his best works 465 Villegas 475 Continuation of the history of lyric, bucolic, epic, didactic and satirical poetry, to the close of the period embraced by this section 485 Jauregui 486 Borja y Esquillache 488 Other poets of this period--the Sylvas or Poetic Forests 492 Rebolledo 493 Continuation of the history of the Spanish drama 499 Calderon 500 Character of the different species of Calderon’s dramas 503 History of the Spanish drama continued to the close of the period of this section 521 Antonio de Solis 524 Moreto 526 Juan de Hoz ibid Tirso de Molina 527 Francisco de Roxas ibid Agustin de Salazar y Torres ibid Mira de Mescua 528 Collections of Spanish dramas published in the seventeenth century 529 Conclusion of the history of Spanish eloquence and criticism, within the period of this section 530 Antonio de Solis considered as a historian 531 Introduction of Gongorism into Spanish prose--Balthazar Gracian 533 BOOK III. History of Spanish literature from its decline in the latter half of the seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth century 538 CHAP. I.