Comments on: Louise Labé – Sonnets VIII & IX

By: Lute – Via Negativa

Lute – Via Negativa — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 13:22:52 +0000

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Louise Labé – Sonnet XXIV (her last) – Via Negativa — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 16:30:02 +0000

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By: Jean

Jean — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 06:16:07 +0000

Thank you both so much for your lovely comments; so good to know you “get” what I was drawn to and trying for here – and Luisa for picking up in your poem the haunting tension of “both at once.”

By: At once – Via Negativa

At once – Via Negativa — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 03:25:40 +0000

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By: Dylan Tweney

Dylan Tweney — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 23:33:51 +0000

Thank you for introducing me to these beautiful sonnets, and with such a lovely pairing of art and English and French, too.

By: PF Anderson

PF Anderson — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 22:42:14 +0000

How lovely, how timely, how sad. It’s almost impossible to work in translation the original rhyming patterns, so I’m impressed that you managed to get a few! Excellent choices on the paintings. Their stiffness seems to encompass the intensity of emotion encompassed in the poems.