Sonnets of love & death / Jean de Sponde ; translated from the French by David R. Slavitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sponde, Jean de, 1557-1595.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Slavitt, David R., 1935-

Series:

European poetry classics

Standardized Title:

D'amour et de mort. English & French

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Sonnets, French--Translations into English.

Sonnets, French.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 83 pages ; 20 cm.

Edition:

Bilingual edition.

Other Title:

Sonnets of love and death

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2001.

Summary:

Sonnets of Love and Death introduces the difficult yet dazzling world of a neglected poet who has earned renewed recognition during the twentieth century . Jean de Sponde has finally taken his proper place in the pantheon of French poets and is now considered one of the most important short form poets who wrote between the Renaissance and Classicism. Poised between two eras, de Sponde's writing reflects all the tensions he felt at that time. In a collection of sonnets loaded with multiple metaphors, paradoxes, antitheses, and hyperbole, he carries out a restless exploration of the body and the spirit, passion and anguish, and the concrete and the abstract. David Slavitt's finely crafted translation respects the challenging nature of de Sponde's four-hundred-year-old diction and themes. While remaining faithful to the original content and sonnet form, he deftly employs contemporary English phrases and poetics that appeal to the modern eye and ear.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 83).

ISBN:

0810118408

OCLC:

46315103