The Italian Influence in English Poetry.
- Author / Editor
- Sells, A. Lytton.
The Italian Influence in English Poetry.
- Published
- Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1955.
- Physical Description
- 346 pp.; 8 b&w illus.
- Description
- Assesses the influence—direct and mediated—of Italian literature on English poetry from Chaucer to Robert Southwell (excluding verse drama), considering issues of meter and style as well as plot, atmosphere, and theme. Opens with appreciative comparisons of sections of Chaucer's works (HF, TC, KnT, ClT, MkT, and various other CT) with their Italian sources in Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, observing changes in atmosphere and characterization through omissions, additions, and modifications. Comments on details of Chaucer's travels in Italy, his "genius," his meter and the relative chronology of his works, and his fusion of Italian models with Latin and French ones.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style and Versification
Chaucer's Life