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Book SynopsisPresents a collection of Luis De Camoes' sonnets, songs, elegies, hymns, odes, eclogues, and other poems - more than 280 lyrics altogether, rendered in engaging verse.
Trade Review"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
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
