Selected sonnets
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Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
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Book
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Bilingual ed.
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9780226092669 (hbk.) :
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199 pages : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Published
Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Edition
Bilingual ed.
Language
English
ISBN
9780226092669 (hbk.) :
Notes
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Formerly CIP.,Uk
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-192) and index.
Description
'Selected Sonnets' collects 70 of Camoes'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'.,The most important writer in Portuguese history and one of the preeminent European poets of the early modern era, Lus de Camoes (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, Camoes 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 Camoes's sonnets in more than one hundred years, Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition collects seventy of Camoes'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 Camoes'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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Camões, L. d., & Baer, W. (2005). Selected sonnets (Bilingual ed.). University of Chicago Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Camões, Luís de, 1524?-1580 and William Baer. 2005. Selected Sonnets. University of Chicago Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Camões, Luís de, 1524?-1580 and William Baer. Selected Sonnets University of Chicago Press, 2005.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Camões, Luís de, and William Baer. Selected Sonnets Bilingual ed., University of Chicago Press, 2005.
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