Emblems of desire

Maurice Scève

Original title: Délie

first published 1966 Gallimard, 1984 357 pages

Collection Poésie ;

"This is the first large-scale English translation of Maurice Sceve's poem cycle, Delie, originally published in Lyons in 1544 and only rediscovered in the early twentieth century as one of the great forgotten masterpieces of French poetry. A contemporary of Sir Thomas Wyatt's in England, Sceve occupies a crucial place in the history of French verse between the late medieval tradition of Marot and the more self-consc...

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Emblems of desire edition · 2007 · Archipelago Books · 224 pages · 9780977857654
Emblems of desire edition · 2003 · University of Pennsylvania Press · 174 pages
Délie edition · 1996 · Dunod · 439 pages
Délie edition · 1987 · Librairie Nizet · 347 pages
Délie edition · 1984 · Gallimard · 357 pages

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