by Jean De Sponde
translated by David R. Slavitt
Northwestern University Press, 2001
Paper: 978-0-8101-1840-9
Library of Congress Classification PQ1705.S7A275 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 841.3

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This bilingual edition introduces readers to the sixteenth century poet Jean de Sponde, considered one of the most important poets of the Renaissance period and a precursor to Donne, in his poetry Sponde reflects the tensions–both stylistic and philosophical-of his time. This collection of sonnets, abounding in metaphor, paradox, antithesis, and hyperbole, is a restless personal exploration of the body and the spirit, of the concrete and the abstract, of passion and anguish.


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