Petrarchian

As in the subsequent and far finer _Amoretti_, Spenser prefers the final couplet form to the so-called Petrarchian arrangement; and, indeed, though the most recent fashion in England has inclined to the latter, an impartial judgment must pronounce both forms equally good and equally entitled to place.

A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

I confess to having felt no little amazement that one so devoid of a perception of the true function of the sonnet should have been considered a proper person to introduce a great sonnet-writer; and Mr. Watts (who, however, made no mention of the writer) clearly demonstrated that the true sonnet has the foundation of its structure in a fixed metrical law, and hence, that as it is impossible (as Keats found out for himself) to improve upon the accepted form, that model -- known as the Petrarchian -- should, with little or no variation, be worked upon.

Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Hall Caine 1892

There are the women who enter the Petrarchian love tradition, but turn it on its head, taking the point of view of the cold, unattainable mistress, a la Edna St. Vincent Millay.

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We made no special effort to remember these verses, for they were not exactly Petrarchian, and, moreover, the ship did not appear to us to be a very happy idea; it was rather out of place.

Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius

But Donne's treatment of love is entirely unconventional except when he chooses to dally half ironically with the convention of Petrarchian adoration.

Introduction. Grierson, Herbert J.C Herbert J.C. Grierson 1921

Song has superseded the sonnet, and the passion of which they sing has lost most of the Petrarchian, chivalrous strain, and become in a very definite meaning of the words, 'simple and sensuous'.

Introduction. Grierson, Herbert J.C Herbert J.C. Grierson 1921

Platonic of inspiration and Petrarchian in form, date back to his college days.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

The poems that may with certainty be ascribed to him follow, as has been said, the Petrarchian model.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Manzoni's earliest poem "Il Trionfo della Libertˆ" (1801), an allegorical vision in the Petrarchian manner of liberty triumphing over tyranny and superstition, is markedly influenced by Vincenzo

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Petrarchian strains of his Platonic attachment — it should be remembered that he had only minor orders, and had probably taken them only that he might enjoy certain ecclesiastical benefices — to

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913