Luis de Góngora

✶July 21, 1561

†March 23, 1627

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About their life

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.

Spanish Baroque lyric poet (1561-1627)

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Biography from the article Luis de Góngora on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.