Actually, similar things could be said about Dante. I hadn't read the Vita
Nuova in a while, so I put it on a syllabus for a "Masterpieces" course, and
it's really far more rich and complicated than people assume when they
simply use it as a reference point for later developments.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marshall Grossman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: FW: Scoping "skeptophilia"
> And why should Petrarch be a petrarchan poet?
>
> At 08:46 AM 7/1/2004, you wrote:
> >Good question, Helen Vincent! Having read all of Petrarch and the poetry
> >over and over, you are absolutely. Petrarchan as a descriptive or
> >evaluative term is almost meaningless. For example, the blazon is gerally
> >credited to Petrarch. Henever wrote one. tpr
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Vincent, Helen" <[log in to unmask]>
> >Date: Thursday, July 1, 2004 6:24 am
> >Subject: Re: FW: Scoping "skeptophilia"
> >
> > > David Wilson-Okamura:
> > > <<We've all seen this at conferences: someone goes on and on about
> > > "Petrarchan this" and "Petrarchan that," when the speaker has read
> > > all of
> > > _four_ poems by Petrarch.>>
> > >
> > > Never mind conferences, what about the texts? How many early
> > > modern English
> > > Petrarchans do people think had read more than four poems by
> > > Petrarch, if
> > > that? Does having read contemporary continental poetry, but not
> > > Petrarchhimself count?
> > >
> > > And from the academic point of view, how many poems by Petrarch
> > > should you
> > > have read before you can authoritatively say what 'Petrarchan' means?
> > >
> > >
> > > Helen Vincent
> > > Curator
> > > Rare Book Collections
> > >
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> > > George IV Bridge Fax: +44 (0) 131 466 2807
> > > Edinburgh Email: [log in to unmask]
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> > > Scotland
> > >
>
> Marshall Grossman
>
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