by Luis de Góngora · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437601991
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«Soledades» is the baroque narrative poem by Luis de Góngora, published by Ediciones Cátedra in a paperback edition (176 pages, in Spanish).
A masterpiece of culteranismo, composed in silvas of hendecasyllabic and heptasyllabic verses, it remained unfinished: only the dedication to the Duke of Béjar and the first two Soledades were completed. The poem, controversial from its appearance, was championed by the Generation of '27 on the tercentenary of Góngora's death. This edition, prepared by John Beverley, proposes a reading linked to the disillusionment of the court and the political destiny of Spain.
Edition by John Beverley in the Letras Hispánicas collection (number 102). The edition departs slightly from Dámaso Alonso's by restoring some baroque elements. It was published on 10 January 2005.
For readers of Spanish baroque poetry and scholars of the Golden Age seeking an annotated edition with critical apparatus.
Luis de Góngora y Argote was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet and a Catholic priest at Córdoba Cathedral. Góngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, are widely considered the most prominent Spanish poets of all time. His style is characterized by what was called culteranismo, also known as Gongorismo. This style apparently existed in stark contrast to Quevedo's conceptismo, though Quevedo was highly influenced by his older rival from whom he may have isolated "conceptismo" elements.
