Complete Poetry and Prose: A Bilingual Edition (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)

Complete Poetry and Prose: A Bilingual Edition (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)

Louise Labé, Deborah Lesko Baker (Translated by), Annie Finch (Translated by)
$40.00
Publication Date: May 15th, 2006
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
ISBN:
9780226467153
Pages:
296

Description

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.

About the Author

Deborah Lesko Baker is associate professor and chair of French at Georgetown University. Annie Finch is the director of the Stonecoast Low-Residency Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program at the University of Southern Maine.

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