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For Dante and Petrarch, posthumous love was a powerful conviction. Exploring the boundaries that Renaissance English poets drew between earthly and heavenly existence, this book seeks to understand this shift and its consequences for English poetry.

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"Posthumous Love sets out a compelling case about a large and important point about English Renaissance love literature-one that perhaps should have been obvious for a long time but has never been brought into such sharp focus. The material may be familiar, but Targoff's treatment is genuinely fresh, and her well-researched book traces a clear narrative arc from Petrarch to the carpe diem poems of the seventeenth century, with nuanced assertions about the sonneteers of the 1590s, the poetry of Donne, and Shakespeare in between." (Gordon Braden, University of Virginia)"

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 5/2/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226789590, 978-0226789590
      ISBN10: 0226789594
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      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Literary studies: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      For Dante and Petrarch, posthumous love was a powerful conviction. Exploring the boundaries that Renaissance English poets drew between earthly and heavenly existence, this book seeks to understand this shift and its consequences for English poetry.

      Trade Review
      "Posthumous Love sets out a compelling case about a large and important point about English Renaissance love literature-one that perhaps should have been obvious for a long time but has never been brought into such sharp focus. The material may be familiar, but Targoff's treatment is genuinely fresh, and her well-researched book traces a clear narrative arc from Petrarch to the carpe diem poems of the seventeenth century, with nuanced assertions about the sonneteers of the 1590s, the poetry of Donne, and Shakespeare in between." (Gordon Braden, University of Virginia)"

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