Author: Dasenbrock, Reed Way
Title: Imitating the Italians: Wyatt, Spenser, Synge, Pound, Joyce
Description: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, (1991). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xiv, 282 pp. Minor rubbing, some light page-edge soil, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Introduction: The Changing Place of Italy in English Literature: Some Versions of Petrarchism: Understanding Renaissance Imitation: The Example of Wyatt; The Petrarchan Context of Spenser's 'Amoretti'; Escaping the Squires' Double Bind in 'The Faerie Queen'; Queen Elizabeth & the Politics of Petrarchism; Synge's Irish Renaissance Petrarchism; O Patria Mia: Joyce & Pound: Leopardi & Pound's Apprehension of the Italian Past; Homer, Dante, Vico, Croce, Joyce; Pound's Machiavellian Moment; Ezra Pound,the Last Ghibelline; Understanding Modernist Imitation: Mozart contra Wagner in 'Ulysses'; Conclusion: In Search of the True Dantescan Voice; Appendix: Pound's Map of Italian Literature for Mussolini.

Keywords: Comparative Literature, Italian, English, Renaissance, Petrarchism, Modernism, Modernist, Literary Imitation, Ezra Pound