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Cassandra

  • ISBN-13: 9781784100100
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: FYFIELD BOOKS
  • By Pierre de Ronsard, Translated by Clive Lawrence
  • Price: AUD $32.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 29/04/2015
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 210 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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The sonnet sequence Les Amours de Cassandre, first published in 1552, established Pierre de Ronsard as the outstanding French poet of his time. He was lauded by Montaigne, admired throughout Europe, and feted by the French Crown and foreign monarchs, including Elizabeth I. Based on a real relationship with Cassandra Salviati, the sequence combines the poet's love for an unattainable beauty with explorations of classical myth, the works of Homer and Ovid, and questions about the very nature of love, literary creation, human existence and the forces that drive the universe. Clive Lawrence's translation, the first complete English translation, captures the range and freshness of the writer known in his lifetime as 'Poet of Princes, Prince of Poets'.
Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585) was born near Vendome in France. After his diplomatic career was ended by illness he entered holy orders. In 1552 he published Les Amours de Cassandre, establishing him as the outstanding poet in French of his time, acknowledged leader of the group now known as the 'Pleiade'. Clive Lawrence was born in 1969 and was educated at Downing College, Cambridge. He has worked in the legal profession in Yorkshire since 1991.
Introduction vii, Cassandra 1
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