Emblems of Desire: Selections from the Délie of Maurice Scève

by Maurice Scève and Maurice Sceve

Book Overview

This is the first large-scale English translation of Maurice Sc ve's poem cycle D lie, originally published in Lyons in 1544 and only rediscovered in the early twentieth century as one of the great forgotten masterpieces of French poetry. A contemporary of Sir Thomas Wyatt in England, Sceve occupies a crucial place in the history of French verse between the late medieval tradition of Marot and the more self-consciously Renaissance poetics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812236947
• ISBN13: 9780812236941
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.6"