El agua mas recordada

Critics conventionally turn to Jose Lezama Lima's essays to describe his poetic system. Relatively rare in Lezama criticism are readings of individual poems. Since Lezama is commonly described as a neo-ba- roque poet, the absence of studies of the intertextual relationships between Lezama's poetic language and that of his Golden Age precursors is surprising. Lezama's dialogue with the poetry of Golden Age Spain is espe- cially intense in Ah, que tti escapes. The poem, with its rich recasting of the poetic language of the Spanish baroque, is also an allegory of the reading experience

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• Gongora and the Footprints of the Voice

  Mary M Gaylord•Modern Language Notes•1993

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