[PDF] Canzoniere Poems Written In The Lifetime Of Madonna Laura eBook

Author : Francesco Petrarca
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,29 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780415942416

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First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Tara Guissin-Stubbs
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 23,46 MB
Release : 2020-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3030532429

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The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion discusses how and why the sonnet appeals to Irish poets and has grown in popularity over the last century. Using a thematic approach, Tara Guissin-Stubbs argues for the significance of the Irish sonnet as a discrete entity within modern and contemporary poetry, and shows how the Irish sonnet has become a debating chamber for discussions concerning the relationship between Irish and British culture, poetry and gender, and revision and rebellion. The text reshapes the poetic and critical field, exploring canonical and non-canonical poems by male and female poets so as to challenge outmoded views of the thematic and formal limitations of the sonnet.

Author : Harald Weinrich
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 20,44 MB
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226886034

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Life is short. This indisputable fact of existence has driven human ingenuity since antiquity, whether through efforts to lengthen our lives with medicine or shorten the amount of time we spend on work using technology. Alongside this struggle to manage the pressure of life’s ultimate deadline, human perception of the passage and effects of time has also changed. In On Borrowed Time, Harald Weinrich examines an extraordinary range of materials—from Hippocrates to Run Lola Run—to put forth a new conception of time and its limits that, unlike older models, is firmly grounded in human experience. Weinrich’s analysis of the roots of the word time connects it to the temples of the skull, demonstrating that humans first experienced time in the beating of their pulses. Tracing this corporeal perception of time across literary, religious, and philosophical works, Weinrich concludes that time functions as a kind of sixth sense—the crucial sense that enables the other five. Written with Weinrich’s customary narrative elegance, On Borrowed Time is an absorbing—and, fittingly, succinct—meditation on life’s inexorable brevity.

Author : Petrarch
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 18,22 MB
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1624661998

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Petrarch fashioned so many different versions of himself for posterity that it is an exacting task to establish where one might start to explore. . . . Hainsworth's study meets this problem through examples of what Petrarch wrote, and does so decisively and succinctly. . . . [A] careful and unpretentious book, penetrating in its organization and treatment of its subject, gentle in its guidance of the reader, nimble and dexterous in its scholarly infrastructure—and no less profound for those qualities of lightness. The translations themselves are a delight, and are clearly the result of profound meditation and extensive experiment. . . . The Introduction and the notes to each work form a clear plexus of support for the reader, with a host of deft cross-references. --Richard Mackenny, Binghamton University, State University of New York

Author : Francesco Petrarca
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 16,19 MB
Release : 2000-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781899293124

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Francesco Petrarca (1304-74) has been described as the 'first modern man of letters' and his influence on the European lyric tradition has been widespread. The poems of his Canzoniere, closely associated as they are with the enigmatic figure of Laura, were soon to become the models for love-poetry in nearly all major European literatures in the Renaissance. The new translations here use the same rhyme schemes and broadly the same metres as those used by Petrarch himself. The facing English texts are thus not intended to be absolutely literal, but to reflect the inner meanings and moods of the originals, with some further literal translations of difficult passages added in the notes. The notes to the poems also cover their likely dates, mythological allusions, certain background settings, and a number of other calendrical and structural features which appear to emerge from the actual sequencing of the collection itself. There is also a section on old Italian syntax. and other linguistic aids. The new translation of Petrarch's Rerum Vulgarian Fragmenta is in two separate volumes.

Author : Francesco Petrarca
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,12 MB
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781330415146

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Excerpt from On the Death of Madonna Laura To My Father's Memory To those whose hearts upon some coffin lie To knock for entrance - whose best visions took Fire from a grave - I dedicate the cry And all the tidal sameness of this book. They will not blame me if my poet repeat A thousand times his phrases like a child: For like a child, to all that he can meet, He talks of love that's vigilant and wild. To Petrarch, life was but a mirror fair Wherein his lady's beauties trancèd lay: Her eyes, her lips, her voice, her smile, her hair Made the strange spectrum of his lonely day. For me, I con these bright monotonous things That, when my angel meets me on the strand And stuns me in the rushing of his wings, I may say something he can understand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Kenneth Verity
Publisher : Shepheard-Walwyn
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0856833819

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The entire history of Western poetry is surveyed in this study, from the ancient world, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the modern period. Two hundred poems extracts are included, and 10 poets are covered in depth, with critical appraisals of their lives and work. Problems of translation in poetry are carefully considered, and the book provides a working definition of poetry, calling it a form of expression human beings turn to when they need to say something important in a memorable way.