«Si de poetas la abundancia apruebas, / Elisio, en nuestro hispánico destrito»: Lope in Golden Age Lyrical Geography

Abstract

This article shows Lope 's relations with contemporary poetic groups and the importance of lyrical authority that he exercised over the different poetic directions of the seventeenth century. His presence in anthologies, his work as a censor, the flow of poetry in the preliminaries of other books, the close ties with the printers' guild (with the Pérez de Montalbán's family) and his conscience as a critical writer endorse the magisterium and ubiquity of poetry of the Phoenix in the different poetic groups of the century. A complex bundle of relationships articulates the decisive role of Lope de Vega in the lyrical geography of the Golden Age.