The astronomical conception viewed in the poetical collective imagination

Abstract

Renaissance and Baroque poetry is an essential part in the history of Hispanic literature because of its strength of abstraction and world outlook. Its thematic extension covered almost all relevant issues to human life. One of these issues is the order of the universe. In the present text –in a bunch of examples– it is attended the birth, evolution and establishment of various astronomical models that prevailed at that time in New Spain. The role played by the stars in poetry has a special relationship with court life, which, besides the dogmas of faith, they had in the pre-Enlightenment Spanish America.