Selected sonnets / Luis de Camoes ; edited and translated by William Baer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Camões, Luís de, 1524?-1580.

Contributor:

Baer, William, 1948-

Standardized Title:

Sonnets. English & Portuguese. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Camões, Luís de, 1524?-1580--Translations into English.

Camões, Luís de.

Sonnets, Portuguese.

Sonnets, Portuguese--Translations into English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

Bilingual ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The most important writer in Portuguese history and one of the preeminent European poets of the early modern era, Luís de Camões (1524-80) has been ranked as a sonneteer on par with Petrarch, Dante, and Shakespeare. Championed by such influential English poets as William Blake and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and admired in America by Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Herman Melville, Camões was renowned for his intensely personal sonnets and equally intense adventurous life. He was banished for dueling and brawling at court, lost an eye fighting the Moors in North Africa, was shipwrecked off the coast of India, jailed in Goa, and exiled in Mozambique. Throughout these personal trials, he advanced poetry beyond the Petrarchin model of love won and lost to write of personal despair, history, politics, war, religion, and the natural beauty of Portugal. The first significant English translation of Camões's sonnets in more than one hundred years, Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition collects seventy of Camões's best-all musically rendered into contemporary, yet metrical and rhymed, English-language poetry by William Baer, with the original Portuguese on facing pages-and reintroduces the genius of a poet whom Cervantes called "the incomparable treasure of Lusus." A comprehensive selection of sonnets that demonstrates the full range of Camões's interests and invention, Selected Sonnets will prove indespensible for both students and teachers in comparative and Renaissance literature, Portuguese and Spanish history, and the art of literary translation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction

Chronology

Selected Sonnets

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index of Titles and First Lines

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-192) and index.

ISBN:

9786611959302

9781281959300

1281959308

9780226092997

0226092992

OCLC:

476229132