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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812472803321

Titolo

Petrarch's Canzoniere in the English Renaissance / / edited by Anthony Mortimer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2005

ISBN

94-012-0148-X

1-4237-9135-5

Edizione

[Rev. and enl. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Collana

Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; ; 88

Disciplina

851/.1

Soggetti

English poetry - Early modern, 1500-1700

Renaissance - England

Sonnets, Italian - Translations into English

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Poems -- General Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index of Authors -- Index of Italian First Lines -- Index of English First Lines.

Sommario/riassunto

Seven centuries after the birth of Petrarch (1304-74) the nature and extent of his influence loom ever larger in the study of renaissance literature. In this revised and expanded edition of Petrarch's Canzoniere in the English Renaissance Anthony Mortimer presents a unique anthology of 136 English poems together with the specific Italian texts that they translate, adapt or exploit. The result, with its revealing juxtapositions of major and minor figures, makes fascinating reading for anyone who wants to get beyond broad generalizations about Petrarchism and see exactly what English poets made of Petrarch's celebrated sequence. Reviewing the first edition, Professor Brian Vickers wrote: An ideal text-book for university courses in English or Comparative Literature. The critical introduction is a fresh, independent and accurate survey of the role of Petrarchism in the English Renaissance. our literary history is being rewritten, more accurately.