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Góngora was always successful with his lighter poetry—the romances, letrillas, and sonnets—but his longer works, the Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea (circulated in manuscript in 1613; “Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea”) and the Soledades (circulated in manuscript in 1613; “Solitudes”), written in an intensely difficult and...
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