Self-fashioning and poet’s attitude in the ethical correspondances of the Early Renaissance

This article endeavours to emphasize the interest of the configuration of the poetic I that the ethical verse-epistles of the early Spanish Renaissance construct, that is, those written in verse by authors born before 1535, whose content intermingles the ethical ideas with the individual experience. Throughout the analysis of the psychological, ethical, and literary configuration of the poetic persona it is possible to show the self-fashioning of the poet and its attitude towards another poet in the correspondance between them: if it is projected as a satisfied or desperate human being, virtuous or sinner, a poetic master or apprentice.