Synopses & Reviews
Thanks to her acclaimed volume of poetry and prose published in France in 1555, Louise Laband#233; (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influential women writers of the Continental Renaissance. Best known for her exquisite collection of love sonnets, Laband#233; played off the Petrarchan male tradition with wit and irony, and her elegies respond with lyric skill to predecessors such as Sappho and Ovid. The first complete bilingual edition of this singular and broad-ranging female author, Complete Poetry and Prose also features the only translations of Laband#233;'s sonnets to follow the exacting rhyme patterns of the originals and the first rhymed translation of Laband#233;'s elegies in their entirety.
About the Author
Deborah Lesko Baker is associate professor and chair of French at Georgetown University.
Annie Finch is the director of the Stonecoast Low-Residency Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program at the University of Southern Maine.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Series Editors' Introduction
Volume Editor's Introduction
Volume Editor's Bibliography
I. Prose
Introduction
Prose Translator's Note
Epistre Dedicatoire / Dedicatory Letter
Debat de Folie et d'Amour / Debate of Folly and Love
II. Poetry
Introduction
Poetry Translator's Note
Eland#233;gies / Elegies
Sonnets / Sonnets
Notes
Series Editors' Bibliography
Index of First Lines and Titles
General Index