Petrarch in Romantic England »

The Petrarchan revival in Romantic England was a unique phenomenon which involved an impressive number of scholars, translators and poets. This book analyses the way Petrarch was read and re-written by Romantic figures. The result is a history of the Romantic-era sonnet and a new lens for understanding English Romantic poetry.

Acknowledgements     vi
Abbreviations     vii
Introduction     ix
Writing the Biography of Petrarch: From Susanna Dobson (1775) to the Romantics     1
Sade and Dobson     1
T. Warton, Gibbon, Tytler     6
The 1810s: Ginguene, Sismondi, H. Hallam     11
Hazlitt and Foscolo     14
'Englishing' Petrarch: The Translators' Role     25
Beginnings     25
Early translators and imitators     27
Sir William Jones and Charles Burney     34
John Nott     37
Three anthologies     40
Charlotte Smith and Anna Seward     52
The Della Cruscans and Mary Robinson     73
Mary Robinson     77
Charles Lloyd and Samuel Taylor Coleridge     94
The 1790s     94
Later developments     102
Epilogue: From Romantic to Victorian Petrarch     126
Displacing Petrarch     126
Re-placing Petrarch     135
Replacing Petrarch     144
Notes     157
Select Bibliography     218
Index     233