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...

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

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...

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 . ....

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

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...

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...

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 /...

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

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 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...

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

The two first translations that she made, when young, from Petrarch , were of canzoni: Di pensier in pensier, di monte in monte (which she rendered as From hill to hill I roam, and thought...

The modesty in these prefatory remarks seems to relate only or chiefly to her plays, but the first poems in the collection (versions of Petrarch ) are preceded by a sonnet to Thomas James Mathias

Apart from his plays and his folklore work, JMS wrote and published, early in his short career, a handful of poems, essays, and book reviews. He left translations from Villon and Petrarch , and an...