Ferocious
Soledad Fox: Luis de Góngora, 13 December 2007
Selected Poems of Luis de Góngora
edited and translated by John Dent-Young.
Chicago, 270 pp., £19, June 2007,978 0 226 14059 9 Show More
edited and translated by John Dent-Young.
Chicago, 270 pp., £19, June 2007,
“... in a sonnet as ‘un positivo padre azafranado’, or ‘an intransigent ginger Jesuit’, as John Dent-Young translates it in his new bilingual Selected Poems. The taint of immorality has long been forgotten, but Góngora’s work has never quite recovered from another accusation: that it is incomprehensible. He was born of a noble family in ... ”
