Petrarch's Canzoniere in the English Renaissance

ANTHONY MORTIMER is Professor of English Literature at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and also taught for many years at the University of Geneva. His major interests are in renaissance poetry and in the practice of verse translation. Among his recent publications are: Variable Passions: A Reading of Shakespeare's 'Venus and Adonis' (New York, 2000); Petrarch: Canzoniere (verse translations for Penguin Classics, London, 2002) and, as editor, The Authentic Cadence: Centennial Essays on Gerard Manley Hopkins (Fribourg, 1992) and From Wordsworth to Stevens: Essays in Honour of Robert Rehder (Bern and New York, 2005).