Luis de Góngora is remembered for writing that changed what came after it.
The record lists Luis de Góngora as Spanish Baroque lyric poet (1561-1627).
Luis de Góngora was born at Córdoba in 1561. His recorded nationality is Spain. He was educated at University of Salamanca and College of Saint Catherine.
Printing had made an author reachable by readers who would never meet them, and vernacular languages were displacing Latin.
He worked as poet, playwright and writer.
The writing is recorded in Spanish.
Among his best-known works are Soledades and Fábula de Píramo y Tisbe. Reputation in letters is unusually volatile: writers are forgotten for a generation and then recovered by one.
That the work was written from Spain matters: language, censorship and the reach of a publishing industry decide which books travel and which stay local.
Luis de Góngora died in 1627, aged 66. The books remain, which is the only durable form a writing life takes.
Achievements
- Notable work: Soledades
- Notable work: Fábula de Píramo y Tisbe
