Petrarch In EnglishA unique anthology of Petrarch's love poems translated into English by poets spanning eight centuries, including Chaucer, Elizabeth I, Milton, Dryden, J. M. Synge, Ezra Pound and Geoffrey Hill. Franceso Petrarch (1304 1374), creator of the sonnet form, remained for more than three hundred years the most influential poet in Europe, his works more widely read than even those of Dante. This collection contains English language versions of his poems from