Petrarch

BBBD wrote as an amateur in the Romantic period. She wrote dramatic works, mostly tragedies, often adapted from texts by other authors, and poems, mostly occasional verse and often translated from poems by others. Her...

She may have translated into English parts of the Essays on Petrarch which Ugo Foscolo privately published (in only sixteen copies) through Bentley on 1 May 1821 after being outraged by changes made in translation...

Evan Tyler , the King's Printer at Edinburgh, issued, with her name, AH 's The Triumphs of Love: Chastitie: Death: Translated out of Petrarch.

SL 's eclipse into relative obscurity is attributable to a number of factors, and raises the question to what degree she deserved the praise she received. One critic remarks that her fame . ....

The poems include an Ode to Genius (which implicitly claims that status), Petrarch to Laura (which woos a woman in a male voice), and a piece responding to Hannah Cowley 's expression of disbelief that...

Her sonnets (always Petrarch an in form) are similarly melancholy. Here she balances the inevitability of earthly suffering with the insufficiency of many earthly goals: why must one live and labour and wax old /...

MC 's targets are the same as those of Jane Austen 's juvenilia: the motifs and the hyperbole of sentimental and gothic novels. It is not her heroine but her heroine's mother who is led...

The plays included are four: Gonzalvo of Cordova, Pedarias, Ina, and Xarifa. A Tragic Drama. Dacre restored the cuts made to Ina for staging, including the original version of the ending...

It concludes that her heart will forever conceal that it drags in reasons Spite / an Heavy, Hopeless Chain. One of the other poems in this group is entitled Sonnet—in ye Manner of Petrarch

In a dedication to her grandchildren (unpaginated), BBBD gives some history of her translations, made at different and distant periods of my life. She cites Mathias , Foscolo , and Panizzi , for...

This time MRM 's setting was fourteenth-century Rome. Rienzi was a friend of Petrarch .

AJV translates from Sappho , Anacreon , Alcæus , Theocritus , Horace , and more recent poets: Petrarch and Camoens . She includes several charity poems: the one already published in aid of the Refuge for the Destitute

In another collaborative venture, ENC joined with her brother Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin and with David Parris in editing Translation and Censorship: Patterns of Communication and Interference, 2009. (She had collaborated with Deirdre Serjeantson and...

AB 's novel was advertised for sale on 21 July. The title-page quotes Petrarch in the original Italian, and the preface makes the claim that the author is really only an editor, transmitting...

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke , completed a poem translated from Petrarch : The Triumph of Death.