Petrarch in Romantic England

by Joan Woodward M.A

Overview

The Petrarchan revival in Romantic Englandwas a unique phenomenon which involved an impressivenumber of scholars, translators and poets. This book analyses the way Petrarch was read and re-writtenby Romantic figures.The result is a history of the Romantic-era sonnet and a new lens for understanding English Romantic poetry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230542600
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	04/30/2008
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	241
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Writing the Biography of Petrarch: From Susanna Dobson (1775) to the Romantics Englishing Petrarch: The Translators' Role Charlotte Smith and Anna Seward The Della Cruscans and Mary Robinson Charles Lloyd and Samuel Taylor Coleridge Epilogue: From Romantic to Victorian Petrarch Notes Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

'A superbly researched, highly readable and ground-breaking book, which provides a valuable new lens for understanding English Romantic poetry. Edoardo Zuccato offers a nuanced view of the way the sonnet tradition in Italian altered the English literary landscape.' - Paula R. Feldman, University of South Carolina, USA

'Zuccato shakes things up in Petrarch in Romantic England. [...] One of the strengths of this monograph lies in its ambition to find in Petrarchism more then superficial literary fashion. [...] Zuccato demonstates the extent to which sentiment, the sonnet, and Petrarch were highly connotative and so politicized.' - Alex MacMillan, Translation and Literature

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