Monument to Luis de Gongora

Monumento a Luis de Gongora, Monument to the poet Gongora
Spain, Salamanca
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Monument to Luis de Gongora

Monumento a Luis de Gongora, Monument to the poet Gongora
Spain, Salamanca
The monument to the Spanish poet Luis de Gongora y Argota in the city of Salamanca is located near Colon Square, near the Catholic Church of St. Paul on Fuente Street. Gongora's poems, dramas and lyric poems were popular in their day and were handwritten. During his lifetime, the poet did not publish a single book, and now his works are reprinted not only in Spain, but are also translated and studied all over the world. The peculiar style of the poet gave rise to a whole trend in Spanish poetry, known as "gongorism", which implies excessive refinement of poetic phrases and complex metaphors.
The monument to the poet, who studied law as a young man at the famous local university, was erected in 1994. The author is the famous Spanish sculptor Severiano Grande Garcia, the height of the monument is 2.50 m with a pedestal 1.50 x 1.40 m. female faces, as if symbolizing the passionate nature of Gongor. Another monument to one of the classics of Spanish literature con. XVI - early. XVII centuries, but in a more familiar version, installed in Cordoba - the hometown of Luis de Gongora.

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Monument to the original poet of the Golden Age of Spanish poetry, Luis de Gongora, whose peculiar language largely determined the foundations of modern poetry, opened in 1994 "" Enjoy your neck, hair, lips and forehead before what was in your golden age, gold, lily, carnation, sparkling crystal, Not only in silver or truncated viola come back but you are together on land, in the smoke, in the dust, in the shade…”
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