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The Collected Lyric Poems of Luis de Camoes By Luis de Camoes

The Collected Lyric Poems of Luis de Camoes by Luis de Camoes


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Presents a collection of Luis De Camoes' sonnets, songs, elegies, hymns, odes, eclogues, and other poems - more than 280 lyrics altogether, rendered in engaging verse.

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The Collected Lyric Poems of Luis de Camoes Summary

The Collected Lyric Poems of Luis de Camoes by Luis de Camoes

Luis de Camoes is world famous as the author of the great Renaissance epic The Lusiads, but his large and equally great body of lyric poetry is still almost completely unknown outside his native Portugal. In The Collected Lyric Poems of Luis de Camoes, the award-winning translator of The Lusiads gives English readers the first comprehensive collection of Camoes's sonnets, songs, elegies, hymns, odes, eclogues, and other poems--more than 280 lyrics altogether, all rendered in engaging verse. Camoes (1524-1580) was the first great European artist to cross into the Southern Hemisphere, and his poetry bears the marks of nearly two decades spent in north and east Africa, the Persian Gulf, India, and Macau. From an elegy set in Morocco, to a hymn written at Cape Guardafui on the northern tip of Somalia, to the first modern European love poems for a non-European woman, these lyrics reflect Camoes's encounters with radically unfamiliar peoples and places. Translator Landeg White has arranged the poems to follow the order of Camoes's travels, making the book read like a journey. The work of one of the first European cosmopolitans, these poems demonstrate that Camoes would deserve his place among the great poets even if he had never written his epic.

The Collected Lyric Poems of Luis de Camoes Reviews

These translations bring Camoes's genius within reach of an audience who cannot read the elegant, intricate Portuguese originals. The volume is a worthy and timely addition to the classics of poetry in translation published as part of Princeton's Lockert Library Series.--Claire Williams, Times Literary Supplement Bringing a fresh, substantial selection of the lyrical poetry of Luks de Camoes into English, White's objective is to capture the 'naturalness and lucidity' of the poet's language. Accompanying more than 150 sonnets are songs, odes, eclogues, elegies, hymns, eights (octavas), and a sestina, the widest range of Camoes's lyrical poetry rendered in English since Richard Burton's more than a century ago.--K. D. Jackson, Choice

About Luis de Camoes

Landeg White is the translator of The Lusiads of Luis Vaz de Camoes (Oxford World's Classics), which won the Teixeira-Gomes Prize for translation in 1998. A prolific poet and scholar, he teaches English and American studies at Universidade Aberta in Lisbon, Portugal.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 THE POEMS PART ONE: Before Africa 23 PART TWO: Before India 91 PART THREE: India and Beyond 155 PART FOUR: Portugal 277 Notes to the Poems 333 Suggested Further Reading 353 Index of First Lines in English 357 Index of First Lines in Portuguese 363

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CIN0691136629G
9780691136622
0691136629
The Collected Lyric Poems of Luis de Camoes by Luis de Camoes
Used - Good
Paperback
Princeton University Press
20080721
384
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