Petrarch in English
$48.35
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2005
Summary
A unique anthology of Petrarch’s love poems translated into English by poets spanning eight centuries, including Chaucer, Elizabeth I, Milton, Dryden, J. M. Synge, Ezra Pound and Geoffrey Hill.
Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374), creator of the sonnet form, remained for more than three hundred years the most influential poet in Europe, his works more widely read than even those of Dante. This collection contains English language versions of his poems from across six centuries, in a wide v…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140434484 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140434488 |
| Author: | Thomas Roche |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2005 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Thomas Roche
Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374), scholar and man of letters, is considered the father of sonnet-writing.
Thomas P Roche is Professor of English at Princeton University. He has written widely on Renaissance literature and has edited Spenser’s Faerie Queene for Penguin Classics.
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