Selected Poems and Translations A Bilingual Edition

Name: Selected Poems and Translations A Bilingual Edition
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ISBN: 9780226141947

ISBN-10: 0226141942

ISBN-13: 9780226141947

Edition: 2007

Authors: Madeleine de l'Aubespine, Anna Klosowska, Anna Kosowska, Anna Kosowska

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Madeleine de l’Aubespine (1546–1596), the toast of courtly and literary circles in sixteenth-century Paris, penned beautiful love poems to famous women of her day. The well-connected daughter and wife of prominent French secretaries of state, l’Aubespine was celebrated by her male peers for her erotic lyricism and scathingly original voice. Rather than adopt the conventional self-effacement that defined female poets of the time, l’Aubespine’s speakers are sexual, dominant, and defiant; and her subjects are women who are able to manipulate, rebuke, and even humiliate men. Unavailable in English until now and only recently identified from scattered and sometimes misattributed sources,…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 130
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.90" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.572



Acknowledgments


Series Editors'


Introduction


Volume Editor's Introduction


Volume Editor's Bibliography


Selected Poems



Translation of Ovid's Heroides Second Epistle



Translation from Ariosto's Orlando furioso , Canto 1


Series Editors'


Bibliography


Notes


Index of First Lines and Titles


General Index