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Sonnets and Other Poems

Sonnets and Other Poems

de Camões, Luís
Zenith, Richard
Vendler, Helen

Paperback

Series: Adamastor

General Poetry

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ISBN10: 1951470222
ISBN13: 9781951470227
Publisher: Tagus Press
Published: Apr 30 2026
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

This revised and updated bilingual edition of Sonnets and Other Poems offers a cross-section of lyric poetry by Portugal's Luís de Camões, author of The Lusiads (1572), the great Renaissance epic memoralizing Vasco da Gama's inaugural voyage to India (1497-99). A selection of forty sonnets is followed by poems using other metrical patterns and rhyme schemes, including terza rima, ottava rima, the sestina, the canzone, and the redondilha, a verse form typical of Portuguese poetry. Richard Zenith's fluid renditions, far from attempting to update Camões, closely adhere to the original text, employing modern English but resisting the temptation to expand on the relatively small and simple lexicon of the Portuguese. Along with discussing his method of translation, Zenith's illuminating introduction shows how Camões's life and work were intimately entwined.

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