Chaucer and Petrarch /
"Despite the fact that Chaucer introduced Petrarch's work into England in the late fourteenth century, Petrarch's influence has been very little studied. This book, the first full-length study of Chaucer's reading and translation of Petrarch, examines Chaucer's translations...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
D.S. Brewer,
2010
Cambridge : c2010 Cambridge : ©2010 Woodbridge, Suffolk [England] ; Rochester, NY : 2010 Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : 2010 Cambridge : 2010 |
| Series: | Chaucer studies ;
41 Chaucer studies 41 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Forms of translatio
- Father of English poetry, father of humanism : when Chaucer 'met' Petrarch
- 'The double sorwe of Troilus to tellen' : Petrarchan inversions in Chaucer's Filostrato
- 'But if that I consente' : the first English sonnet
- 'Mutata veste' : Griselda between Boccaccio and Petrarch
- 'Of hire array what sholde I make a tale?' : Griselda between Petrarch and Chaucer
- Conclusion: 'Translacions and enditynges'
- Introduction Forms of translatio
- 1. Father of English poetry, father of humanism : when Chaucer 'met' Petrarch
- 2. 'the double sorwe of Troilus to tellen' : Petrarchan inversions in Chaucer's Filostrato
- 3. 'But if that I consente' : the first English sonnet
- 4. 'Mutata veste' : Griselda between Boccaccio and Petrarch
- 5. 'Of hire array what sholde I make a tale?' : Griselda between Petrarch and Chaucer
- Conclusion : 'translacions and enditynges'.