| Sonnets of Love and Death Contributor(s): de Sponde, Jean (Author), Slavitt, David R. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0810118408 ISBN-13: 9780810118409 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2001 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General |
| Dewey: 841 |
| LCCN: 2001001090 |
| Series: European Poetry Classics (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 5.12" W x 7.9" (0.26 lbs) 83 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This bilingual edition introduces readers to the sixteenth century poet Jean de Sponde, considered one of the most important poets of the Renaissance period and a precursor to Donne, in his poetry Sponde reflects the tensions--both stylistic and philosophical-of his time. This collection of sonnets, abounding in metaphor, paradox, antithesis, and hyperbole, is a restless personal exploration of the body and the spirit, of the concrete and the abstract, of passion and anguish. |