1st Edition
The Italian Influence in English Poetry From Chaucer to Southwell
By A.L. Lytton Sells
Copyright 1955
364 Pages
by
Routledge
364 Pages
by
Routledge
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If poetry was the fashionable mode of expression in Tudor England, ‘Great Italy’, as Shakespeare called her, was the land of predilection for Englishmen. They looked to Italy for lessons in philosophy, good breeding, in the art of civilization and the art of government. Englishmen travelled to Italy and lived as students in Padua; Italian Protestants came to England—Vermigli, Gentili, Florio,... Read more
Preface 1. Chaucer 2. The Flowering of Scottish Poetry 3. ‘Two Courtly Makers’ 4. Travellers and Exiles 5. The Approach to Parnassus 6. Sidney; or, the Triumph of Petrarch 7. Spenser 8. Shakespeare 9. Italians ‘anglyfide’ 10. The Sonnet-books 11. Songs, Madrigals and occasional verse 12. Drayton 13. Greville 14. Southwell Conclusion
Biography
A. Lytton Sells, a graduate of Cambridge and of the Sorbonne, had an extraordinarily long teaching career which began in 1923. He held various positions at the University of Padua, Indiana University and taught at University of Durham until his retirement.
