A Sonnet from Carthage

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"Taking as his touchstone a wonderfully suggestive sonnet that Garcilasco 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."--Jacket.

subjects: Vega, garcilaso de la, 1539-1616,  Spanish poetry, history and criticism,  Criticism and interpretation,  Spanish poetry,  History and criticism,  European poetry