TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Sceve, Maurice.
AU  - Sieburth, Richard (tr.)
TI  - EMBLEMS OF DESIRE: Selected from the Delie of Maurice Sceve
SN  - 9780977857654
U1  - 841 
PY  - 2007////01/01
CY  - New York
PB  -  Archipelago Books
KW  - Poetry
KW  - French poetry
KW  - French literature
KW  - Scève, Maurice, - active 16th century
KW  - Translations into English. Scève, Maurice, - active 16th century
KW  - Sieburth, Richard, American translator
N1  - A forgotten masterpiece of French poetry, Emblems of Desire is a selection of 449 love poems first published in Lyons in 1544. Full of passionate ironies and charged obscurity, Scève is considered a sixteenth-century Mallarmé. His oblique self-portraiture laid the groundwork for many contemporary poets. This edition is accompanied by fifty emblems created by the author. The illustrations and Latin mottoes contained within each emblem offer poignant, and often witty, responses to his poems
ER  -