Love Sonnets and Elegies |
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| Author:
| Labé, Louise
Labé, Louise |
| Translator:
| Sieburth, Richard |
| Afterword by:
| Sieburth, Richard |
| Preface by:
| Lessing, Karin |
| Series title: | NYRB Poets Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-59017-731-0 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2014 |
| Publisher: | New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
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| Imprint: | NYRB Poets |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $12.95 |
Book Description:
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Louise Labe, one of the most original poets of the French Renaissance, published her complete Works around the age of thirty and then disappeared from history. Rediscovered in the nineteenth century, her incandescent love sonnets were later translated into German by Rilke and appear here in a revelatory new English version by the award-winning translator Richard Sieburth.
Louise Labe, one of the most original poets of the French Renaissance, published her complete Works around the age of thirty and then disappeared from history. Rediscovered in the nineteenth century, her incandescent love sonnets were later translated into German by Rilke and appear here in a revelatory new English version by the award-winning translator Richard Sieburth.