Góngora y Argote, Luis de | Mary Malcolm Gaylord (essay date 1995)
Mary Malcolm Gaylord (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: Gaylord, Mary Malcolm. “Góngora and the Footprints of the Voice.” In Cultural Authority in Golden Age Spain, edited by Marina S. Brownlee and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, pp. 79-106. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1995.
[In the following essay, Gaylord examines Góngora's “Sonnet 80” (“Descaminado, enfermo, peregrino”) as a basis for discussion of the poet's reputed lack of personal voice in the Soledades.]
Few readers of the Soledades fail to note Góngora's linking, in the poem's striking first lines, of his pilgrim's physical footsteps with the movement of verse itself:
Pasos de un peregrino son errante cuantos me dictó versos dulce Musa en soledad confusa, perdidos unos, otros inspirados.
[Such verses as my muse may grant / are steps upon a wandering pilgrim's way; / while some may go astray, / in lonely mazes,...
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