{"product_id":"sonnets-and-shorter-poems-9780674062160","title":"Sonnets and Shorter Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this volume, David R. Slavitt, the distinguished translator and author of more than one hundred works of fiction, poetry, and drama, turns his skills to \u003ci\u003eIl Canzoniere\u003c\/i\u003e (Songbook) by Petrarch, the most influential poet in the history of the sonnet. In Petrarch's hands, lyric verse was transformed from an expression of courtly devotion into a way of conversing with one's own heart and mind. Slavitt renders the sonnets in \u003ci\u003eIl Canzoniere\u003c\/i\u003e, along with the shorter madrigals and ballate, in a sparkling and engaging idiom and in rhythm and rhyme that do justice to Petrarch's achievement. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the center of \u003ci\u003eIl Canzoniere \u003c\/i\u003e(also known as \u003ci\u003eRime Sparse, \u003c\/i\u003eor Scattered Rhymes) is Petrarch's obsessive love for Laura, a woman Petrarch asserts he first saw at Easter Mass on April 6, 1327, in the church of Sainte-Claire d'Avignon when he was twenty-two. Though Laura was already married, the sight of her woke in the poet a passion that would last beyond her premature death on April 6, 1348, exactly twenty-one years after he first encountered her. Unlike Dante's Beatrice--a savior leading the poet by the hand toward divine love--Petrarch's Laura elicits more earthbound and erotic feelings. David Slavitt's deft new translation captures the nuanced tone of Petrarch's poems--their joy and despair, and eventually their grief over Laura's death. Readers of poetry and especially those with an interest in the sonnet and its history will welcome this volume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Francesco Petrarch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.37h x 5.82w x 1.18d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674062160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlavitt, David R.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - David R. Slavitt is a poet and the translator of more than ninety works of fiction, poetry, and drama.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43128125390963,"sku":"9.78067E+12","price":69.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_4c26150a-b483-454a-ac71-52176a135a40.jpg?v=1749731069","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/sonnets-and-shorter-poems-9780674062160","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}