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Book SynopsisPost-Petrarchism offers a theoretical study of lyric poetry through one of its most long-lived and widely practiced models: the lyric sequence, originated by Francis Petrarch in his Canzoniere of the late fourteenth century. A framework in which poems are suspended according to some organizing or unifying principle, the lyric sequence emerges from
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. vii*A NOTE ON TEXTS AND PROCEDURES, pg. xi*Introduction. POST-PETRARCHISM: TOWARD A POETICS OF LYRIC AND THE LYRIC SEQUENCE, pg. 3*Chapter 1. FOUNDING FICTION: THE TEMPORALITY OF PETRARCH'S CANZONIERE, pg. 22*Chapter 2. CONSTRUCTING CHARACTER: SIDNEY'S ASTROPHIL AND STELLA AS NOMINATIVE FICTION, pg. 63*Chapter 3. TWO RITUAL SEQUENCES: TAYLOR'S PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS AND WHITMAN'S LEAVES OF GRASS, pg. 109*Chapter 4. NOMINATIVE TO ARTIFACTUAL: INTERVAL AND INNOVATION IN TWO SEQUENCES BY YEATS, pg. 153*Chapter 5. MEASURING SPACE, BECOMING SPACE: THE SPATIALITY OF NERUDA'S ALTURAS DE MACCHU PICCHU AND ADAN'S LA MANO DESASIDA, pg. 195*NOTES, pg. 255*INDEX, pg. 287
