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Of the Selected Poems of Luis de Góngora, in the London Review of Books.
This link will only give you a taste, but might be enough to intrigue.
<http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n24/fox_02_.html>

 

He’s a ferocious poet,
if there’s any in Libya,
and when he’s seized by
the poetry mania
                he’ll produce you loose verse
as if he’s been purged,
while with carob seeds
he makes little round ones. 

(from ‘Hanme dicho, hermanas’, 1587)

 

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