
The Regrets
Joachim Du Bellay(Author)
Northwestern University Press
Will be published approx. on 30. August 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-8101-1993-2 (ISBN)
Description
As a member of the mid-16th-century literary group ""La Pleiade"", Joachim du Bellay sought to elevate his native French to the level of the classical languages - a goal pursued with great spirit, elegance, irony, and wit in the poems that comprise ""The Regrets"". Widely viewed as one of the finest sonnet sequences in all of French literature, this Renaissance masterpiece wryly echoes the homesickness and longing of Ovid's poetry written in exile - because du Bellay finds himself lost in Rome, the very home Ovid longed for. In this translation by David R. Slavitt, these performances retain their original formal playfulness as well as their gracefully rendered but nevertheless moving melancholy. In decadent Rome, among hypocrites, thieves, and snobs, du Bellay uses his poetry as an opportunity for social satire and caustic self-criticism; it becomes a salvation of sorts, an approach peculiarly modern in its blending of the classical, the social, and the personal.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
300 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8101-1993-2 (9780810119932)
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