Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword viii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Preface xi
6. Introduction: Renaissance and Solitude 1
7. 1. Crisis and Form 21
8. 2. Violence, Eros and Lyric Emotion 51
9. 3. Self and World: The Crisis of Perception in the Soledades 72
10. 4. Time, Space and Apocalypse: The Falconry Scene as Disruption of Prophecy 87
11. 5. Góngora and the Modern: “New Poetry”? 104
12. Works Cited 143
13. Index 169