The Icy Fire: Five Studies in European Petrarchism

by Leonard Forster

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In this short introductory book, Professor Forster examines Petrarchism as a European phenomenon transcending national boundaries. He begins with a general survey of themes and conventions, providing, with quotation, something like a repertory of the devices. He then shows in an important historical study how various vernacular literatures were seeking for a renewal of poetic diction at the moment when Petrarchism was available to meet the need. The...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521295211

ISBN13:9780521295215

Release Date:February 1979

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:228 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"

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