ENGL 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sonnet 18, Petrarchan Sonnet, Petrarch
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Next monday should be last class on twelfth night --> donne"s poems. In discussing how the play represents the era in which it was written. Courtly love was mediated or heavily influenced by 14th century italian poet petrarch. Medieval romance started in the french court, and in the 14th century, petrarch adapts courtly love, and chivalry for own purposes and revises it. A couple of centuries later, late 15th c and early 1600s people like shakespeare and. Page 701 in anthology, malvolio among roses, hand on heart, swooning. Petrarch created a representation, unprecedented in intensity and psychological nuance, of his unrequited passion for a young woman named laura and for all she came to symbolize for him. His passion for laura continued long after her untimely death and was at once a transcendent experience and a state of spiritual paralysis an ecstatic joy, and a torment of self-blame and self-justification.
