Selected Poems
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- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
23 August 2023
Summary
‘Live now and listen, do not wait in vain Until tomorrow; pluck life’s rose today.’
Joachim du Bellay and Pierre de Ronsard are two of the major sixteenth-century French poets and leaders of the extraordinary group known as ‘La Pléiade’. Determined to create a national vernacular literature, the Pléiade poets profited from an intense study of Greek and Roman models and from a creative use of classical mythology to produce a body of verse that reflects the vigour and variety of Europea…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780192847997 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0192847996 |
| Author: | Du Bellay, Ronsard |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 23 August 2023 |
| Weight: | 224g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 130mm x 195mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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Critics Review
This is an essential poetry collection for all humans’ home libraries, as well as public and university libraries. This collection is also a great choice for French or world literature classes. * Pennsylvania Literary Journal *
Du Bellay
Anthony Mortimer has taught at universities in Croatia, Italy, the United States, and Germany, as well as the University of Geneva, before his appointment in 1978 as Professor of English Literature at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He is a member of the Swiss Academy of the Arts and Social Sciences and, in 1995-96, was Visiting Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. Most of his scholarly work has been in the field of early modern English poetry. He retired in 2006 and now lives in Geneva, where his major activity is translating poetry from Italian, French, and German.
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