Petrarch

The story opens in the year 1605 in a cottage near the Jura Mountains. Later scenes set in Salzburg convinced Devendra P. Varma that Sleath was personally acquainted with that city. Julie de...

The story is set in a Scottish border castle in the reign of Henry VII . ES again quotes learnedly: Ariosto and Petrarch in the original Italian, and Horace in Latin. The widowed Gertrude Baroness...

CS 's original poems express her deeply unhappy feelings. With them she included translations from Petrarch and (in verse) of passages from Goethe 's Werther. She added notes to the translations.

ES attended Merchant Taylors' School (which had been founded in 1561). His first publication (translations from Petrarch and Du Bellay ) appeared in print (with another translation) before he entered university.

This thinly disguised autobiographical fiction (both roman à clef and bildungsroman) depicts a lesbian or invert relationship at a time when public attention to unorthodox sexual relationships (following such attention by sexologists), was on the...

AS declares at the outset her belief in the progressive development of the human race, and in the contribution that poetry makes to pushing on that development as well as to witnessing and recording it...

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...

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

Their editor Harriet Kramer Linkin calls these poems often unsettling and unsettled,pulsating with the frustrated energies of unfulfilled Petrarchan desire voiced from a complex feminine position. Linkin followed up her edition with a critical...

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

Foscolo read Petrarch and Sterne together with Hamilton's daughter Sophia. Then he seduced her, and went back to Italy leaving her pregnant. The baby was called Mary after her grandmother, and stayed with Lady Mary...

Barbara Kiefer Lewalski has summarised LMW 's achievement (her historical importance and the quality of her art) like this: Wroth reinvented the Petrarch an lyric sequence, the romance, and the pastoral drama, claiming those genres...

Elizabeth Isabella Spence , reporting on a visit to Bristol, mentions AY as an example of an obscure woman writer of genius. In 1990 Donna Landry wrote of her complex contradictions under the heading...