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Góngora (y Argote), (Don) Luis de 1561-1627
Spanish lyric poet
Born in Córdoba, he studied law, but in 1606 took orders and became a prebendary of Córdoba, and eventually chaplain to Philip III. His earlier writings were sonnets, romances and satirical verses, but he is best known for his longer poems, such as Soledades (1613, Eng trans The Solitudes, 1931), Polifemo (1613, Eng trans Polyphemus and Galatea, 1977) and Piramo y Tisbe ('Pyramus and Thisbe'), written in an affected style which came to be called 'gongorism', which his followers designated the estilo culto.
Bibliography: D W and V R Foster, Góngora (1973)
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