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Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition (English and Portuguese Edition) Hardcover – September 1, 2005

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  • Hardcover: 176 pages
  • Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; Bilingual edition (September 1, 2005)
  • Language: English, Portuguese
  • ISBN-10: 0226092666
  • ISBN-13: 978-0226092669
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.1 x 8.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsYou can never have too much Camoes
By USAF Veteran VINE VOICE on October 26, 2006
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Luis de Camoes is generally considered the greatest writer in the Portuguese language - on a par with Shakespeare in English, or Goethe in German. His most famous work is a long epic poem entitled "Os Lusiadas" or "The Portuguese" which describes in verse Portuguese exploration of the world (see my review). Camoes also wrote several hundred sonnets, unpublished in his lifetime. Most scholars think somewhere from 200 - 300 of the current sonnets variously ascribed to Camoes are his, with a few collections having over 400. I personally like his sonnets better than his epic poem, which can be stylized and obscure.

This book is a collection of 70 sonnets with the Portuguese and English translation on facing pages. The translator, William Baer, not only translates well, but he manages to also write his translation in rhyme. This is a tremendous accomplishment because Portuguese, like all Romance languages, has few word endings and is easy to rhyme while English, a polyglot Germanic language, is not.

That is not to say that the translations are perfect. They are not. But they're pretty good and anything approximating Camoes is great. Camoes is rather a playful cynic and most of these sonnets bring out those qualities. There is a sense of wistfulness ("saudade" in Portuguese) in most of them regarding lost love and homesickness. Camoes was a world travelling ne'er-do-well who was banished from his homeland, lost an eye battling the Moors, was imprisoned, and shipwrecked near the Mekong Delta, saving only his manuscript poems. He returned to his homeland only to watch a young adventurous King lead an army of nearly all the young men of the country to a massacre by a vastly greater Moorish force.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsRevisiting a great poet
By Christopher Schindler on March 11, 2007
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This is a great anthology of Camoes lyric work. I'm a fan of bilingual poetry editions. These translations are very fine, even though not literal.

As a literary translator once told me "You write English literature." The notes are good and background information is helpful. Anyone interested in 16th century literature, I think, will treasure this volume.
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3.0 out of 5 starsI didn't read, but...
By Pimentinha on April 22, 2010
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[Edit: I must be clear. The only reason I'm not giving this 1 star only is because I have only read this sonnet, and nothing else from the book. In this translation the meaning of the text is altered and plus I don't even think the verses are that good in English. Besides altering the meaning, they convey nothing of the tone.

Maybe you should look at Landeg White's book, which I also haven't read. In hindsight I realize these verses given as example are really tough for a non native speaker. I know Richard Zenith [see Mark Baxter's comment below] and I was really surprised to see that he completely missed the meaning of the verses. I guarantee you: although a non native might be really confused, for a literate native there is no ambiguity in the meaning of these last 3 verses. Only beauty and sheer poetry, in one of the ultimate portuguese poems.]

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I didn't read it, but I'm portuguese and I was looking for an English translation the other day of one of his sonnets so I stumbled upon this book.
Here's what I found [page 70, "Mudam-se os tempos, mudam-se as vontades..."]:

"E, afora este mudar-se cada dia,
outra mudança faz de mór espanto:
que não se muda já como soía."

This books translation:
"Yet even more
astonishing is yet another unseen
change within all these endless changes:
that for me, nothing ever changes anymore."

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This is wrong, really wrong. It's without a doubt one of his top5 sonnets, one that every portuguese knows, and this translation completely misses it. I was in such shock I'm writing this review!Read more ›
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