«Y en este monte y líquida laguna»: paisaje, alegoría y mecenazgo en el soneto 10 de las Rimas humanas y divinas del Licenciado Tomé de Burguillos de Lope de Vega

Abstract

This article examines the relation between poetry and landscape in the sonnet 10 of Lope de Vega’s Rimas humanas y divinas del licenciado Tomé de Burguillos (1634), a volume of poems in which nature takes center stage as a result of Lope’s constant questioning of poetic conventions. Lope’s description of nature in this poem employs landscape as an allegorical vehicle to highlight his social and professional shortcomings as a poet out of favor with the court. This allegorical use of landscape places the Rimas squarely into what landscape theoretician W. J. T. Mitchell calls a “pre-emancipatory moment” in the history of the representation of the natural world —an intermediate stage between the symbolic interpretation and the aesthetic objectivization of nature.

Keywords

• landscape
• lope de vega
• patronage
• rimas de burguillos