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Spiritual sonnets : a bilingual edition / Gabrielle de Coignard ; edited and translated by Melanie E. Gregg.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coignard, Gabrielle de, -1586.
- Series:
- Other voice in early modern Europe.
- The other voice in early modern Europe
- Standardized Title:
- Sonnets spirituels. English & French
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coignard, Gabrielle de, d. 1586. Sonnets spirituels.
- Coignard, Gabrielle de.
- French poetry--16th century.
- French poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (229 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Born into a wealthy family in Toulouse, Gabrielle de Coignard (ca. 1550-86) married a prominent statesman in 1570. Widowed three years later, with two young daughters to raise, Coignard turned to writing devotional verse to help her cope with her practical and spiritual struggles. Spiritual Sonnets presents the first English translation of 129 of Coignard's highly autobiographical poems, giving us a startlingly intimate view into the life and mind of this Renaissance woman. The sonnets are all written "in the shadow of the Cross" and include elegies, penitential lyrics, Biblical meditations, and more. Rich with emotion, Coignard's poems reveal anguished moments of loneliness and grief as well as ecstatic experiences of mystical union. They also reveal her mastery of sixteenth-century literary conventions and spiritual traditions. This edition, printed in bilingual format with Melanie E. Gregg's translations facing the French originals, will be welcomed by teachers and students of poetry, French literature, women's studies, and religious and Renaissance studies.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Series Editors' Introduction
- Volume Editor's Introduction
- Volume Editor's Bibliography Coignard's Spiritual Sonnets, with English translations on facing pages
- Notes
- Series Editors' Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611125448
- 9781281125446
- 128112544X
- 9780226139852
- 0226139859
- OCLC:
- 476229210
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