I can recall but few instances where there is anything that must be called invective in sonnets; but there are several striking instances in Petrarch -- the sonnets in which he inveighs against ...

Where to read this sonnet: Poetry Foundation. 1. Sonnet 18: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” (1609) Sonnet 18, arguably the most iconic of all Shakespeare’s sonnets, claims the ...

Organised around Petrarch's 'war' against the Ubaldini clan of 1349–1350, which formed the prelude to his meeting and friendship with Boccaccio, William Caferro's work examines the institutional and ...

A captivating live Liszt performance by Yunchan Lim, Gramophone's Young Artist of the Year and also winner of the Piano category at the 2024 Gramophone Awards Thanks for exploring the Gramophone ...

But it was the Italian poet Petrarch who put the form on the map. In the 14th century, he wrote a collection of 366 poems, ...

This one might be his most famous: Sonnet 18. 'Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?' asks Shakespeare. A sonnet is usually based on just one idea, so he compares someone to a summer’s day ...

The self-conducted 18-piece string orchestra Sphinx Virtuosi ... includes Mahler’s “Kindertotenlieder” and Liszt’s “Petrarch ...

Jon Nakamatsu will perform works by Bach, Beethoven (Sonata in D Major, Op. 28), Mendelssohn, Liszt (Three Petrarch Sonnets), and Chopin. Now in his third decade of touring worldwide, American pianist ...