| Emblems of Desire Contributor(s): Sceve, Maurice (Author), Sieburth, Richard (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0977857654 ISBN-13: 9780977857654 Publisher: Archipelago Books OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2007 Annotation: "Richard Sieburth has performed a miracle of literary invention. He has made these poems sing."-Paul Auster A forgotten masterpiece of French poetry, Emblems of Desire is a selection of 449 love poems first published in Lyons in 1544. Full of passionate ironies and charged obscurity, Maurice Scve is considered a sixteenth-century Stphane Mallarm. His oblique self-portraiture laid the groundwork for many contemporary poets. Poet Michael Palmer calls Richard Sieburth "one of our finest living scholars and translators." Maurice Scve (c.1500c.1564) was at the center of Lyonnese cterie that elaborated the theory of spiritual love. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General - Poetry | Ancient & Classical |
| Dewey: 841.3 |
| LCCN: 2007060764 |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6.24" W x 7.48" (0.65 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A forgotten masterpiece of French poetry, Emblems of Desire is a selection of 449 love poems first published in Lyons in 1544. Full of passionate ironies and charged obscurity, Sc ve is considered a sixteenth-century Mallarm . His oblique self-portraiture laid the groundwork for many contemporary poets. This edition is accompanied by fifty emblems created by the author. The illustrations and Latin mottoes contained within each emblem offer poignant, and often witty, responses to his poems. |