Complete Poetry and Prose » (1st Edition)

Deborah Lesko Baker is associate professor and chair of French at Georgetown University. Annie Finch is the director of the Stonecoast Low-Residency Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program at the University of Southern Maine.

Thanks to her acclaimed volume of poetry and prose published in France in 1555, Louise Labé (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influential women writers of the Continental Renaissance. Best known for her exquisite collection of love sonnets, Labé played off the Petrarchan male tradition with wit and irony, and her elegies respond with lyric skill to predecessors such as Sappho and Ovid. The first complete bilingual edition of this singular and broad-ranging female author, Complete Poetry and Prose also features the only translations of Labé's sonnets to follow the exacting rhyme patterns of the originals and the first rhymed translation of Labé's elegies in their entirety.

Acknowledgments Series Editors' Introduction Volume Editor's Introduction Volume Editor's Bibliography

I. Prose
Introduction Prose Translator's Note Epistre Dedicatoire / Dedicatory Letter Debat de Folie et d'Amour / Debate of Folly and Love

II. Poetry
Introduction Poetry Translator's Note Elégies / Elegies Sonnets / Sonnets

Notes Series Editors' Bibliography Index of First Lines and Titles General Index