Louise Labé

Louise Labé is commonly regarded as the most original woman poet of the French Renaissance. The daughter of an illiterate rope maker in Lyon, known to her contemporaries for her unusual learning as well as her skills as a singer and lutanist, Labé was in her thirties when she published her complete Worksin 1555 and then disappeared from the scene, not to be rediscovered until the nineteenth century. Her love poetry, made famous by Rilke's German versions, is published here with the originals en faceand newly rendered into English by award-winning translator Richard Sieburth, who also includes a biographical chronology of the poet, notes, and an informative afterword to this edition. These Love Sonnets and Elegiesconfirm Labé's reputation as the first modern Sappho.

Love Sonnets & Elegies

Werkausgabe

Torheit und Liebe

Renée Vivien

Marie Nizet

Renée Dunan

Marguerite de Navarre

Comtesse de Ségur,

Mariana Alcoforado

Sappho,

Héloïse,

Thérèse d' Ávila

Marquise de Mannoury

Wilhelmine Schroeder-Devrient

Colette,

Vicomtesse de Cœur-Brûlant [Marquise de Mannoury]

De l'Antiquité à nos jours, les pages les plus osées jamais écrites par des femmes. De Sappho, première poétesse érotique de l'Antiquité, aux Mémoires d'une chanteuse allemande, de Wilhelmine Schroeder-Devrient, chef-d'œuvre érotique du XIXe siècle, des Lettres d'Héloise à Abélard, osant traiter des « enivrements de la volupté » entre une abbesse et un chanoine, en plein Moyen Âge, jusqu'aux Caprices du sexe, de Renée Dunan, roman pornographique très cru, le premier à être écrit par une femme, cette anthologie coquine et savante vous propose quelques-unes des œuvres les plus sulfureuses jamais écrites par des femmes. Vous y trouverez également plusieurs morceaux choisis surprenants : une lettre de sainte Thérèse d'Ávila, des sonnets de Louise Labé, des extraits de L’lngénue Libertine, de Colette, ainsi que du Général Dourakine, de la comtesse de Ségur... Collection Bibliothèque libertine. Anthologie numérique, 443 pages, couverture en couleurs de Francine Van Hove.

Les plus belles œuvres de la littérature érotique au féminin

LES LIBERTINES

The love sonnets of Louise Labé of Lyons and the gilded legend of her life in the early years of the French Renaissance have appealed to the imagination of four centuries. Printed here beside the text of the 1556 edition, the translations of the sonnets by Alta Lind Cook follow closely the original version and admirably retain its sweep and movement, its simplicity and melody. The rhyme scheme of the Petrarchan sonnet has been preserved with variations and corresponding to those of the French. With the poems, the translator presents a sketch of the circumstances and background of this unique literary figure of the Sixteenth Century, known in France and outside of France as La Belle Cordière. These translations by Alta Lind Cook are fine poetry; in English as in French the reader finds "present reality in their hope and their despair, their independence and their impertinence, their tears and their sparkle."

Sonnets of Louise Labé

Louise Labe

Louise Labé's Complete Works

Peter Sharratt

Sonnets

Le plus grand plaisir qui soit après amour, c'est d'en parler. Nul n'en a mieux parlé, et plus intensément, que cette " Belle Cordière " dont le Débat, les Elégies et même les Sonnets sont encore injustement méconnus. Ses contemporains ne s'y sont pourtant pas trompés, qui avaient vu en elle une autre Sapho, capable de créer un nouveau langage poétique. Cette édition moderne des Œuvres complètes (la seule à comprendre les Ecrits de l'originale) permettra de jeter un regard neuf sur l'un des plus grands poètes de la Renaissance.

Ceuvres Completes

Oeuvres complètes

Louise Labé, a French Renaissance poet, was one of the most exciting and influential writers of her time. Many scholars have translated her poems into English, but few have addressed her prose. Yet Debate of Folly and Love generated enormous enthusiasm among its first audience when it was published in 1555. Not only does it constitute a major part of Labé's work, it also contains her most innovative and original ideas. It is a witty, serious commentary on women's roles in society, love, marriage, and reason vs. folly - issues still pertinent in our times and attractive to modern readers. This translation takes into account all the recent research by scholars on Labé and sheds new light on her original text. The introduction situates Labé's life and work; notes, a bibliography, and a glossary complete this work.

A New English Translation with the Original French Text

Debate of Folly and Love

Les Sonnets; the Sonnets Translated Into English with an Introduction by Bettina L. Knapp

La disputa di follia e di amore

Il canzoniere

Louise Labé

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