Lope de Vega y la poesía de jardines: naturaleza y arte en la “Descripción de la Tapada” (La Filomena, 1621)

This paper examines Lope de Vega’s “Descripción de La Tapada” (La Filomena, 1621) in the context of the writer’s villa poems, and studies the meaning of its similarities and differences with its closest text: the “Descripción del Abadía”. After examining the critics opinions on the text, and showing that it is the least studied of Lope’s poems on gardens, we analyze the poem’s structure and topics, which we will use as a basis to study its genre and its function in La Filomena and in Lope’s literary career. These questions, in turn, will help us understand the peculiar relationship that art and nature establish in the poem.