The document discusses the differences between Renaissance and Baroque literature, focusing on the Spanish Baroque lyric. It describes Baroque literature as pessimistic, distrusting of nature and man, and favoring exaggeration and the exaltation of death over the optimism and balance of Renaissance works. It then examines characteristics of Spanish Baroque lyrics, including complexity, stylistic devices, contrasts, exaggeration, and mythological allusions. Finally, it outlines two Baroque stylistic trends, Conceptismo and Culteranismo, and their representative writers Quevedo and Góngora.