Sonnets of Louise Labé

by Louise Labé

The love sonnets of Louise Lab of Lyons and the gilded legend of her life in the early years of the French Renaissance have appealed to the imagination of four centuries.

Printed here beside the text of the 1556 edition, the translations of the sonnets by Alta Lind Cook follow closely the original version and admirably retain its sweep and movement, its simplicity and melody. The rhyme scheme of the Petrarchan sonnet has been preserved with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442639326
• ISBN13: 9781442639324
• Release Date: December 1950
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher