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| Author: Richard Helgerson |
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Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
ISBN-10: 0812240049
ISBN-13: 9780812240047
Buy.com Sku: 204198634
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
Pages:
120
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| In 1492 the Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija proclaimed that "language has always been the companion of empire." Taking as his touchstone a wonderfully suggestive sonnet that Garcilaso de la Vega wrote in 1535 from the neighborhood of ruined Carthage in North Africa, Richard Helgerson examines how the companionship of language and empire played itself out more generally in the "new poetry" of sixteenth-century Europe. Along with his friend Juan Boscan, Garcilaso was one of the great pioneers of that poetry, radically reforming Spanish verse in imitation of modern Italian and ancient Roman models. As the century progressed, similar projects were undertaken in France by Ronsard and du Bellay, in Portugal by Camoes, and in England by Sidney and Spenser. And wherever the new poetry emerged, it was prompted by a sense that imperial ambition--the ambition to be in the present what Rome had been in the past--required a vernacular poetry comparable to the poetry of Rome. |
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