Petrarch in Romantic England [Hardcover]

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

'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

EDOARDO ZUCCATO?is based in the English Dept at the Universit? IULM, Milan, Italy. He is co-editor (with Elinor Shaffer) of the Coleridge volume in 'The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe' series for Continuum, and his publications include several books in Italian and contributions to journals including Agenda and The Wordsworth Circle.