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Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence
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Full Title:
Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence
Contributors:
By (Author) Roland Greene
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Literary studies: poetry and poets
Dewey:
808.814
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
306
Dimensions:
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
Weight:
510g
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
