A bilingual edition of one of the finest sonnet sequences of the RenaissanceAs a member of the mid-sixteenth-century literary group La Pléiade, 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 brilliant performances retain their original formal playfulness as well as their gracefully rendered but nonetheless 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.

The Regrets (European Poetry Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Du Bellay, Joachim

Poetry

Northwestern University Press

<p>A pocket size book. Joachim Du Bellay (1525-1560) was one of the most attractive figures of the French Renaissance. Walter Pater presented him as a kind of fin-de-siecle writer tht fitted in with his own aestheticism. Nothing could be further from the truth. Du Bellay was a vigorous innovator, an advocate of the use of the vernaculr at a time when that was a hard fought cause. In Les Regrets, a long sequence of sonnets far removed from the conventional Petrarchan manner popular in the 16th century, the poet talks to his friens and talks freely giving them his impression of life in Rome which he seeing not merely as a traveller and sight-seer but as one following the intrigues and corruptions of the day as a young man in the train of a French cardinal-diplomat. Du Bellay was on the inside of things. Observant, sceptical of all pretensions, witty and outspoken, he gives an incomparable picture of the age in some of the most accessible and readable verse of his time. This poet may be remote from Pater's version of him, but he is part of our tradition through his impact on Edmund Spenser and others. C.H. Sisson translates the sonnets in the conversational and intimate tones in which they were composed.</p>

The Regrets

Carcanet Press Ltd.

Les Oeuvres Francoises de Joachim Du Bellay (1597)

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Joachimi Bellaii Andini Poematum Libri Quatuor (1558) (Latin Edition)

Joachimi Bellaii Andini Poematum Libri Quatuor (1558) (English and Latin Edition)

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La Deffence Et Illustration de la Langue Francoyse. Ed. Critique Par Henri Chamard (French Edition)

History

Chamard, Henri

Europe

Nabu Press

Défense et illustration de la langue française (French Edition)

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