Franceso 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 variety of translations and
reinterpretations. Spanning the "Trionfi" series and The
Canzoniere" - Petrarch's empassioned sonnet-sequence concerning his
beloved Laura - it also includes great English poems influenced by
Petrarch. From Chaucer's early adaptation of a Petrarchan sonnet in
"Troilus and Criseyde" to the sixteenth century translations by the
Earl of Surrey, Byron's mocking consideration of The Canzoniere" in
"Don Juan" and Ezra Pound's parody "Silet", all provide a unique
insight into the significance of the founder of the European lyric
tradition.
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