Poems of Gongora

by Luis de Góngora y Argote

Book Overview

Many students of Spanish literature will have encountered some of G ngora's poems. No Spanish poet is grater or more rewarding, but few are as difficult for the beginner. His style is a habit of mind: radically metaphorical, elliptical, witty, highly sensuous, transmuting the world of the sense into a world of the spirit. To read him, one has to learn these characteristic habits and perform athletic mental feats as one goes along. It would be too...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521093813
• ISBN13: 9780521093811
• Release Date: January 1966
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"