Malherbe, Théophile de Viau and Saint-Amant
A selection
Edited by Richard G. Maber
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- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 978-0-7190-8188-0
- Pages: 132
- Price: £12.99
- Published Date: December 2009
- Series: Durham Modern Languages Series
Description
This volume offers a representative yet concise selection of the work of the seventeenth-century poets, Malherbe, de Viau and Saint-Amant. It also provides supporting documentation to bring out the unique literary personality of each, and to help make their poetry as accessible as possible to a modern reader. It is designed to fill the gap between scholarly complete editions and more general anthologies which are rarely able to devote much space to any one author. The present volume was prompted by the success that this poetry enjoyed with readers who were relative newcomers to French verse.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
François de Malherbe (1555-1628)
Consolation à Monsieur Du Périer
Dessein de quitter une dame
Prière pour le Roi Henri le Grand
Pour Alcandre
Il plaint la captivité
Chanson (sonnet): 'Beaux et grands bâtiments.'
Chanson: 'Sus, debout.'
Two *Épigrammes*
Prophetié du Dieu de Seine
Au Roi (Sonnet)
Pour le Roi, allant châtier la rébellion
Sur la mort de son fils (Sonnet)
Paraphrase du Psaume CXLV
Théophile de Viau (1590-1626)
Le Matin
La Solitude
Sonnet: 'Chère Isis, tes beautés.'
Sonnet: 'Vous me pressez à tort.'
Épigramme: 'Enfants, buvons a qui mieux mieux.'
Satire première (Extracts)
Stances: 'Quand tu me vois baiser tes bras.'
Élégie: 'Cloris, lorsque je songe.'
Ode: 'Cloris, pour ce petit moment.'
Élégie: 'Souverain qui régis.' (Extract)
Ode: 'Un corbeau devant moi croasse.'
A Monsieur de L., sur la mort de son père
Requête de Theophile au Roi (Extracts)
La Maison de Silvie, Ode III
Antoine Giraud, Sieur de Saint-Amant (1594-1661)
La Solitude
Le Passage de la Mer Rouge (from Moïse sauvé)
La Pipe
Le Passereux
Les Goinfres
L'Énamouré
L'Hiver des Alpes
Le Melon (Extracts)
Appendix
Notes to the texts
Bibliography
Index of first lines
Editor
ProRichard G. Maber is Director of the Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies, Emeritus Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University