The Poetry of Petrarch - Couverture souple

Petrarch

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0374529612 ISBN 13 : 9780374529611

Editeur : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005

Synopsis

"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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

The sonnets of Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-74) helped to establish Italian as a literary language.

David Young is Dean of the Chapel and Assistant Professor of Biblical Literature at Eastern Nazarene College, USA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0374529612
• ISBN 13: 9780374529611
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Henry Holt; https://henryholt.com/; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italie