Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Roland Greene
SeriesPrinceton Legacy Library
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:306
Dimensions(mm): Height 254,Width 178
Category/GenreLiterary studies - classical, early and medieval
Literary studies - poetry and poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780691600987
ClassificationsDewey:808.814
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 14 July 2014
Publication Country United States

Description

Post-Petrarchism offers a theoretical study of lyric poetry through one of its most long-lived and widely practiced models: the lyric sequence, originated by Francis Petrarch in his Canzoniere of the late fourteenth century. A framework in which poems are suspended according to some organizing or unifying principle, the lyric sequence emerges from