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Princeton University Press, Published 1991. Hardcover, ix, 292 pp.; 24 cm. First printing.
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In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. Minor edgewear to covers. Binding tight. Interior pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has minor shelf wear. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. [From front jacket flap] Post-Petrarchism offers a theoretical study of lyric poetry through one of its most long-lived and widely practiced models: the lyric sequence, originated by Francesco Petrarch in his Canzoniere of the late fourteenth century. A framework in which poems are supposed according to some organizing or unifying principle, the lyric sequence emerges from European humanist culture as a poetic discourse that represents personal experience and operates as a kind of fiction. Here Roland Greene proposes that since Petrarch the lyric sequence has survived in European and American literatures, from Shakespeare's Sonnets to The Waste Land to Trilce, as a complex in which formal, generic, and cultural designs intersect, and as an emblem of lyric discourse at its most extensive, inclusive, and ambitious. Enabled by a theoretical introduction to this genre at large, the book traces the founding and elaboration of the vernacular sequence in its major texts by Petrarch, Philip Sidney, Edward Taylor, Walt Whitman, W. B. Yeats, Pablo Neruda, and Martin Adan. Greene shows how Post-Petrarchism has evolved as lyric discourse through its response to such events as the Reformation and Puritanism, the settlement of the New World, and the various modernisms of Europe and the Americas. Contents: Post-Petrarchism: Toward a Poetics of Lyric and the Lyric Sequence; Founding Fiction: The Temporality of Petrarch's Canzoniere; Constructing Character: Sidney's Astrophil and Stella as Nominative Fiction; Two Ritual Sequences: Taylor's Preparatory Meditations and Whitman's Leaves of Grass; Nominative to Artifactual: Interval and Innovation in Two Sequences by Yeats; Measuring Space, Becoming Space: The Spatiality of Neruda's Alturas de Macchu Picchu and Adan's La Mano Desasida; Notes; Index.