"David Young\'s version of Petrarch will refresh our images of the West\'s crucial lyric poet. --from Sonnet 116 Petrarch was born in T.
We are given a Petrarch in our own vernacular, with echoes of Wyatt, Shakespeare, and many who come after." --Harold Bloom Ineffable sweetness, bold, uncanny sweetness that came to my eyes from her lovely face; from that day on I\'d willingly have closed them, never to gaze again at lesser beauties. "David Young\'s version of Petrarch will refresh our images of the West\'s crucial lyric poet