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Soledades

Las Soledades is a poem by Luis de Góngora, composed in 1613 in silva in hendecasyllables and heptasyllables .


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“Feathers are Love's most fitting battle-ground.”

A batallas de amor, campo de pluma.
Las Soledades, Soledad 1, line 1091, cited from Gilbert F. Cunningham (trans.) The Solitudes of Luis de Góngora (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1968) p. 76. Translation from the same source, p. 77.

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