Luis de Góngora

Luis de Góngora y Argote (1561–1627) was a Spanish Baroque poet born in Córdoba, where he served as a canon of the cathedral. He took deacon's orders in 1586. Ordained priest around 1605, he became honorary chaplain to Philip III in 1617 through the Duke of Lerma.

His elaborate, Latinate style was known as culteranismo or Gongorismo. The style reached its peak in the Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea (1612) and the Soledades.

He feuded for decades with Francisco de Quevedo, champion of the rival conceptismo. Illness forced him back to Córdoba in 1626, and he died there in 1627.