Góngora, lector de El Asno de oro. A propósito de Soledades, I, 767-779 (con notas críticas sobre Herrera y Arguijo)

Abstract

This article offers an analytical study circumscribed to the survival of The Golden Ass in verses 767-779 of the Soledad primera, by Luis de Góngora. This Apuleyan tradition, with special reception of the myth of Psyche and Cupid in Seville in the mid-sixteenth century, had its rise and spread in the humanistic context of Seville. In fact, in this place of knowledge, prominent poets such as Fernando de Herrera and Juan de Arguijo offered their respective versions devoted to the literary treatment of the fable in the heat of the epic-mythographic poem La Psyche, by Juan de Mal Lara. Arguijo himself, on his part, was interested in the Soledades, attending to the obscurity of Góngora as a conceptual aesthetic category. In this way, we are witnessing, in short, a visible continuum, for the purposes of Andalusian cultured poetics, from the poetic-humanistic environment of Herrera and Arguijo to Góngora.

Keywords

• Góngora Luis de
• Herrera Fernando de
• Apuleius
• Arguijo Juan de