Petrarch: Songs and Sonnets

by Francesco Petrarca, Ben Casseday, Susan Wallaston

Book Overview

I saw the tracks of angels in the earth, The beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world. The great fourteenth-century poet's lyric and love poems are presented as living poetry in Nicholas Kilmer's powerful and moving versions. His selection convinces us that, as he puts it, "Petrarch deserves to be valued as a real man, a careful thinker, a good poet." Free in form yet holding close to the central impulses of Petrarch's inspiration,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0856464384
• ISBN13: 9780856464386
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"