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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454025003321

Autore

Góngora y Argote Luis de <1561-1627.>

Titolo

Selected poems of Luis de Góngora [[electronic resource] ] : a bilingual edition / / edited and translated by John Dent-Young

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007

ISBN

1-281-95951-0

9786611959517

0-226-14062-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Dent-YoungJohn

Disciplina

861/.3

Soggetti

POETRY / General

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. SHORTER POEMS -- II. FIRST SOLITUDE -- III. THE FABLE OF POLYPHEMUS AND GALATEA -- IV. PYRAMUS AND THISBE -- Commentary -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Titles and First Lines

Sommario/riassunto

Known as the "Spanish Homer," Luis de Góngora y Argote (1561-1627) is widely considered to be Spain's greatest poet. He was both praised and vilified during his lifetime, but his reputation waned in the years after his death; in the 1920's, he was championed by the Modernists, including Federico García Lorca, and influential critics of Spanish literature, including Dámaso Alonso. Famous for intricate metaphors in baroque style and syntax, Góngora has even been immortalized as a literary term: a "gongorism" connotes an involved Latinate style. Yet despite his influence and reputation