Francisco de Quevedo

Conceptismo is a Spanish Baroque style built on compressed wit, sharp argument, paradox, and verbal ingenuity. Quevedo became one of its major figures in the Spanish Golden Age, often using it for satire and moral attack.

Quevedo and Luis de Gongora were major rivals in early 17th-century Spanish literature. Their feud is often framed as conceptismo against Gongora's culteranismo, though both poets were more complex than that simple opposition suggests.

No. He also wrote satirical prose, political works, and the picaresque novel El Buscon. El Buscon is one of the major Spanish picaresque works associated with the Golden Age.

The Sueños, or Dreams, are satirical prose visions that attack social hypocrisy, corruption, and vice. They show the same bitter intelligence and verbal speed that make Quevedo's poems distinctive.