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The Poetry of Petrach (Paperback, 1st pbk. ed)
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The Poetry of Petrach (Paperback, 1st pbk. ed)
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"David Young's version of Petrarch will refresh our images of the
West's crucial lyric poet. We are given a Petrarch in our own
vernacular, with echoes of Wyatt, Shakespeare, and many who come
after." --Harold Bloom
"Ineffable sweetness, bold, uncanny sweetness"
"that came to my eyes from her lovely face; "
"from that day on I'd willingly have closed them, "
"never to gaze again at lesser beauties."
--from Sonnet 116
Petrarch was born in Tuscany and grew up in the south of France. He
lived his life in the service of the church, traveled widely, and
during his lifetime was a revered, model man of letters.
Petrarch's greatest gift to posterity was his Rime in vita e morta
di Madonna Laura, the cycle of poems popularly known as his
songbook. By turns full of wit, languor, and fawning, endlessly
inventive, in a tightly composed yet ornate form they record their
speaker's unrequited obsession with the woman named Laura. In the
centuries after it was designed, the "Petrarchan sonnet," as it
would be known, inspired the greatest love poets of the English
language-from the times of Spenser and Shakespeare to our own.
David Young's fresh, idiomatic version of Petrarch's poetry is the
most readable and approachable that we have. In his skillful hands,
Petrarch almost sounds like a poet out of our own tradition
bringing the wheel of influence full circle.
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