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Complete Poetry and Prose

A Bilingual Edition

Louise Labe author Annie Finch translator Deborah Lesko Baker translator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:The University of Chicago Press

Published:3rd Sep '07

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Louise Labe (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influential women writers of the Renaissance. Best known for her exquisite collection of love sonnets, Labe 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 female author, "Complete Poetry and Prose" also features the only translations of Labe's sonnets to follow the exacting rhyme patterns of the originals and the first rhymed translation of Labe's elegies in their entirety.

ISBN: 9780226467146

Dimensions: 24mm x 16mm x 2mm

Weight: 539g

296 pages

Bilingual edition