1st Edition

Jacques Yver's Winter's Springtime A Modern English Translation

Copyright 2025
270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

A prose work interspersed with poetry, Le Printemps d'Yver was highly popular in its day, seeing thirty editions between 1572 and 1635. Jacques Yver’s stories and their premise – three gentlemen and two noble women who spin five tales in order to distract each other from the horrors of the recent third religious war and to rejoice in the brief 1570 truce of Saint-Germain - provide an intriguing... Read more
Introduction, Anagram of Jacques Yver, Dedication to the young women of France, Sonnet by Joseph Yver on the Printemps by Jacques Yver, his brother, Response in similar rhyme by Marie Yver, their only sister, Preface to Readers, First Day, First Story, Second Day, Second Story, Third Day, Third Story, Fourth Day, Fourth Story, Fifth Day, Fifth Story, Farewell to his book, Quatrain on the death of the author, Sonnet on the same.

Biography

Margaret Harp is Associate Professor of French in the Department of World Languages at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She has published on Rabelais's Quart Livre and Jacques Yver's Le Printemps d'Yver.