Literature by Period

In this critical and historical interpretation of Petrarch’s major Italian work, Peter Hainsworth presents Petrarch as a poet of outstanding sophistication and seriousness. In the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta Petrarch reformed the received Italian tradition, and found solutions to the intellectual, lin..

In this critical and historical interpretation of Petrarch’s major Italian work, Peter Hainsworth presents Petrarch as a poet of outstanding sophistication and seriousness. In the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta Petrarch reformed the received Italian tradition, and found solutions to the intellectual, lin..

A collection of essays that offer a methodological framework for the history of reading. Focusing on a specific historical moment, it gathers statistics about such issues as literacy rates, library subscriptions, publication and sales figures, and print runs to answer questions about what was being ..

Thomas Campion, Milton, Crashaw, Herbert, Bourne, Walter Savage Landor – all these poets, between them spanning the period from the Elizabethan to the Victorian age, wrote a substantial body of Latin verse in addition to their better-known English poetry, representing part of the vast and almost une..

Thomas Campion, Milton, Crashaw, Herbert, Bourne, Walter Savage Landor – all these poets, between them spanning the period from the Elizabethan to the Victorian age, wrote a substantial body of Latin verse in addition to their better-known English poetry, representing part of the vast and almost une..