NP but have we called him hyperbolic lately or labelled his style Baroque? Fits.

[Mark Kohut]

This book [Hyperboles] offers a detailed, comparatist defense of hyperbole in 
the Baroque period. Focusing on Spanish and Mexican lyric (Góngora, Quevedo, and 
Sor Juana), English drama (King Lear and translations of Seneca), and French 
philosophy (Descartes and Pascal), Christopher Johnson reads Baroque hyperbole 
as a sophisticated, often sublime, frequently satiric means of making sense of 
worlds and selves in crisis and transformation. Grounding his readings of 
hyperbole in the history of rhetoric and literary imitation, Johnson traces how 
rhetorical excess acquires specific cultural, political, aesthetic, and 
epistemological value. Hyperboles also engages more recent critiques of 
hyperbolic thought (Wittgenstein, Derrida, and Cavell), as it argues that 
hyperbole is the primary engine of a poetics and metaphysics of immanence. 

 
 
Although I want to agree with that last line, why? Why isn't an accepting 
realism more of a 'poetics and metaphysics of immanence'? I have one answer. 

You.