Böcker av Luis de Gongora Y Argote

This book makes the difficult and radically metaphorical poetry of Gongora more accessible. A long introduction deals with his life, and then gives solid critical guidance to the poems. It includes passages of sustained and detailed analysis which explain how characteristic poems 'work' and it incorporates original insights and research.

Luis de Gongora no publico su obra en vida, aunque lo intento en 1623. Sus versos se conocieron dispersos en Manuscritos o impresos en hojas sueltas. Solo aparecieron en un libro el ano en que murio, en una edicion que preparo Juan Lopez de Vicuna con el titulo de Obras en verso del Homero espanol (1627). Despues Gonzalo de Hoces hizo otra edicion de Todas las obras de don Luis de Gongora en varios poemas (1633).

The aim of this edition is to make it approachable for those who are coming to Gongora, or Spanish poetry, for the first time. The poem fuses epic and pastoral as it describes a journey through the countryside and contrasts the beauty of nature with the vices of court and commercial greed.