Petrarch in Romantic England

EDOARDO ZUCCATO is based in the English Dept at the Università IULM, Milan, Italy. He is co-editor (with Elinor Shaffer) of the Coleridge volume in 'The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe' series for Continuum, and his publications include several books in Italian and contributions to journals including Agenda and The Wordsworth Circle.

• Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Writing the Biography of Petrarch: From Susanna Dobson (1775) to the Romantics Englishing Petrarch: The Translators' Role Charlotte Smith and Anna Seward The Della Cruscans and Mary Robinson Charles Lloyd and Samuel Taylor Coleridge Epilogue: From Romantic to Victorian Petrarch Notes Bibliography Index

'A superbly researched, highly readable and ground-breaking book, which provides a valuable new lens for understanding English Romantic poetry. Edoardo Zuccato offers a nuanced view of the way the sonnet tradition in Italian altered the English literary landscape.' - Paula R. Feldman, University of South Carolina, USA 'Zuccato shakes things up in Petrarch in Romantic England. [...] One of the strengths of this monograph lies in its ambition to find in Petrarchism more then superficial literary fashion. [...] Zuccato demonstates the extent to which sentiment, the sonnet, and Petrarch were highly connotative and so politicized.' - Alex MacMillan, Translation and Literature