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 by such influential English poets as William Blake and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and admired in America by Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Herman Melville, Cam es was renowned for his intensely personal sonnets...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226092666
• ISBN13: 9780226092669
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"