Luis de Góngora is Spain’s greatest poet of the Baroque period. He was much admired by Lorca, and Roy Campbell described him as ‘a symbolist who contains the whole of Mallarmé and a lot more besides, a symbolist three hundred years before his time.’ Michael Smith’s translations, in this first English bilingual edition, fluently and accurately convey the timeless qualities of Góngora’s intricate and intriguing poetry.