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Record Nr.

UNINA9910149430803321

Autore

Labe Louise

Titolo

Sonnets of Louise Labe / / Labe, Louise Cook, Alta Lind

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1950

©1950

ISBN

1-4426-5307-8

1-4426-3762-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (69 pages)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

820.9003

Soggetti

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Louise Labe of Lyons -- The Sonnets

Sommario/riassunto

The love sonnets of Louise Labé of Lyons and the gilded legend of her life in the early years of the French Renaissance have appealed to the imagination of four centuries.Printed here beside the text of the 1556 edition, the translations of the sonnets by Alta Lind Cook follow closely the original version and admirably retain its sweep and movement, its simplicity and melody. The rhyme scheme of the Petrarchan sonnet has been preserved with variations and corresponding to those of the French. With the poems, the translator presents a sketch of the circumstances and background of this unique literary figure of the Sixteenth Century, known in France and outside of France as La Belle Cordière.These translations by Alta Lind Cook are fine poetry; in English as in French the reader finds ";present reality in their hope and their despair, their independence and their impertinence, their tears and their sparkle.";