Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition

By Luís de Camões

Book Overview

The most important writer in Portuguese history and one of the preeminent European poets of the early modern era, Lu s de Cam es (1524-80) has been ranked as a sonneteer on par with Petrarch, Dante, and Shakespeare. Championed and admired by such poets as William Blake, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Cam es was renowned for his intensely personal sonnets and equally intense life of adventure.
The first significant English translation of Cam es's sonnets in more than one hundred years, Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition collects seventy of Cam es's best--all musically rendered by William Baer into contemporary, yet metrical and rhymed, English-language poetry, with the original Portuguese on facing pages.
A comprehensive selection of sonnets that demonstrates the full range of Cam es's interests and invention, Selected Sonnets will prove indispensable for both students and teachers in comparative and Renaissance literature, Portuguese and Spanish history, and the art of literary translation.
"Splendidly produced. . . .William Baer brings Cam es's] sonnets forward as accomplished, indeed often beautiful, examples of this Renaissance invention."--Jeffery Hart, National Review "William Baer's artistry gives the reader translations that convey much of the poetry's original directness and simplicity, along with the intensity, timbre, and subtlety of the original imagery and themes. . . . Selected Sonnets] will renew interest in these superb sonnets and bring Cam es deserved readership in English."--Choice

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226092860
• ISBN13: 9780226092867
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.1"