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Spenser Among the Tombs: Some Petrarchan Paratexts
by Deirdre Serjeantson

Petrarch is everywhere in Spenser, though a cursory glance would suggest that he is present largely to be amended by his successor. Amoretti, appearing in 1595 at the peak of the vogue for English sonnet sequences in the mode of Petrarch’s Canzoniere, can be read as a genial rebuke to the Petrarchan valorisation of chastity over companionate marriage. Read more…

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Deirdre Serjeantson, "Spenser Among the Tombs: Some Petrarchan Paratexts," Spenser Review (Winter 2021).
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenseronline/review/volume-51/511/spenser-among-the-tombs-some-petrarchan-paratexts
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