In the short-sighted republic: twenty seven notes to Góngora´s Soledad primera (II)

Abstract

This article tries to shed light on twenty-seven loci critici of Góngora’s first Solitude (1613): vv. 117-120, 153-162, 167-168, 171-175, 182-189, 212-221, 263-266, 291-296, 321-328, 344-349, 374-375, 461-464, 500-502, 573-579, 580-584, 585-589, 598-601, 623-629, 667-668, 701-704, 705-708, 810-811, 812-817, 866-871, 872-878, 895-896, 943 and 1012-1013. Taking the great edition of Solitudes (1994) prepared by Robert Jammes as our start ing point, we revise several textual readings which he considered doubtful. In doing so, we take into account commentaries made by critics from the Baroque period (Almansa y Mendoza, Jáuregui, the “Abad” from Rute, Díaz de Rivas, the Anonymous from Antequera, Pellicer, Salcedo Coronel, Vázquez Sirue-la) and also by the modern critics (Reyes, Spitzer, Alonso, Orozco, Pabst, Alatorre, Carreira, Sinicropi, Molho, Ly, Poggi, Cancelliere, Romanos, Sán-chez Robayna, Lara Garrido, Yoshida, Blanco, Mazzocchi, Micó, Roses, Pérez Lasheras, Ponce Cárdenas, Collins, Tenorio, Matas Caballero, Chemris, Osuna Cabezas, Palomares, Castaldo, Román Gutiérrez, Tanabe, Rojas Cas-tro, Conde, Sandoval…). Attention is also paid to the classical tradition, to emblems and to the dialogue between the first Solitude and the rest of Góngora’s poetic corpus.