Complete Poetry and Prose
A Bilingual Edition
Edited and with Critical Introductions and Prose Translations by Deborah Lesko Baker
Poetry Translations by Annie Finch
Poetry Translations by Annie Finch
296 pages
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1 halftone
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6 x 9
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© 2006
Thanks to her acclaimed volume of poetry and prose published in France in 1555, Louise Labé (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influential women writers of the Continental Renaissance. Best known for her exquisite collection of love sonnets, Labé played off the Petrarchan male tradition with wit and irony, and her elegies respond with lyric skill to predecessors such as Sappho and Ovid. The first complete bilingual edition of this singular and broad-ranging female author, Complete Poetry and Prose also features the only translations of Labé's sonnets to follow the exacting rhyme patterns of the originals and the first rhymed translation of Labé's elegies in their entirety.
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