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Author Coignard, Gabrielle de, -1586.

Title Spiritual sonnets : a bilingual edition / Gabrielle de Coignard ; edited and translated by Melanie E. Gregg
Edition 1st ed
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 195 pages)
Series The other voice in early modern Europe
Other voice in early modern Europe.
Contents Acknowledgments; Series Editors' Introduction; Volume Editor's Introduction; Volume Editor's Bibliography; Coignard's Spiritual Sonnets, with English translations on facing pages; Notes; Series Editors' Bibliography; Index
Summary Born into a wealthy family in Toulouse, Gabrielle de Coignard (ca. 1550-86) married a prominent statesman in 1570. Widowed three years later, with two young daughters to raise, Coignard turned to writing devotional verse to help her cope with her practical and spiritual struggles. Spiritual Sonnets presents the first English translation of 129 of Coignard's highly autobiographical poems, giving us a startlingly intimate view into the life and mind of this Renaissance woman. The sonnets are all written "in the shadow of the Cross" and include elegies, penitential lyrics, Biblical medi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Coignard, Gabrielle de, -1586. Sonnets spirituels
French poetry -- 16th century.
POETRY -- Continental European.
French poetry
Form Electronic book
Author Gregg, Melanie E.
LC no. 2003012759
ISBN 9780226139852
0226139859
9780226139838
0226139832
9780226139845
0226139840
Other Titles Sonnets spirituels. English & French