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Gordon Braden was born on August 14, 1947, in the United States.
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In 1969, Braden received a Bachelor of Arts from Rice University.
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Braden received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1975.
(The 366 lyrics of Petrarch's Canzoniere exert a unique in...)
The 366 lyrics of Petrarch's Canzoniere exert a unique influence in literary history. From the mid-fifteenth century to the early seventeenth, the poems are imitated in every major language of western Europe, and for a time they provide Renaissance Europe with an almost exclusive sense of what love poetry should be. In this stimulating look at the international phenomenon of Petrarch's poetry, Gordon Braden focuses on materials in languages other than English-Italian, French, and Spanish, with brief citations from Croatian and Cypriot Greek, among others.
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Gordon Braden was born on August 14, 1947, in the United States.
In 1969, Braden received a Bachelor of Arts from Rice University, and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1975.
Gordon Braden joined the staff of the English Department at the University of Virginia in 1975. Currently, he is Professor Emeritus there. His first book, The Classics and English Renaissance Poetry, published in 1978, includes specific studies of three major works: Arthur Golding’s translation of the Metamorphoses, Christopher Marlowe’s Hero and Leander, and Robert Herrick’s lyric poetry. With the first study, Braden uses a unique approach by focusing on Golding to more fully understand the influence of this translator on the meaning of the original poem.
In his second essay in this book, Braden completes a detailed study of the poet Masaeus, demonstrating his influence upon Marlowe. Braden’s last essay in this collection is his longest of the book. In it, Braden explores both the content and the language of Herrick’s poetry, comparing them to the works of the Classical Greek poet Horace.
Braden's Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance, focuses on one of the most influential lyric poets of European literature, Petrarch, whose unrequited passion for a woman named Laura, inspired much of his fourteenth-century poetry. Petrarch is accredited with having perfected the sonnet, a form which Shakespeare adapted to his own writing. Braden carefully demonstrates the influence of Petrarch on Italian, Spanish, French, and Cypriot Greek poets. In later chapters, Braden uses Petrarch’s form and style to better understand the seventeenth-century Mexican poet Sor Juana de la Cruz.
Among Braden's other works are Renaissance Tragedy and the Senecan Tradition (1985), The Idea of the Renaissance (1989), Sixteenth-Century Poetry (2005), The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English: 1550-1660, with Robert Cummings and Stuart Gillespie (2010) and Petrarch's English Laurels, 1475-1700, with Jackson Campbell Boswell (2012).
(The 366 lyrics of Petrarch's Canzoniere exert a unique in...)
1999