Felipe Valencia - ‘Eager the Orient Spoils Itself’: Sublimity and the Indies in Luis de Góngora’s Panegírico al duque de Lerma (1617)

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Felipe Valencia is associate professor of Spanish at Utah State University. He works on early modern Spanish poetry and poetics and feminist, gender, and sexuality studies. His publications include the book The Melancholy Void: Lyric and Masculinity in the Age of Góngora (University of Nebraska Press, 2021). At present he is working on a second monograph, Luis de Góngora and Gongorism: The Hispanic Sublime.