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The Decameron and the English Romantics

The Decameron and Romanticism

• The Decameron and the Romantic Period
• Why Was the Decameron Popular in the Romantic Period?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Garden of Boccaccio"

• The text of the poem
• S. T. Coleridge and his Poem
• "The Garden of Boccaccio," a Critical Reading

Romantic "Retellings": Adaptations of Tales and Brief Commentaries

• Adaptation of the Tale of Masetto (III.2) by John Cam Hobhouse (1805)
• Adaptation of the Tale of Lydia and Nicostratus (VII.9) in Spirit of Boccaccio's Decameron, published anonymously but attributed to Thomas Moore (1812)
• "Isabella" (IV.5) by John Keats (1818)
• "The Tale of Gismunda and Guiscardo" (IV.1) by William Wilmot (1819)
• "A Sicilian Story" (IV.5) by B. W. Procter (1820)
• "The Letter of Boccaccio" (fictional letter from Boccaccio to Fiammetta ) by B. W. Procter (1823)
• "Ladye of Provence" (IV.9) and "Garden of Florence" (IV.7), both by John Hamilton Reynolds (1821)
• "Titus and Gisippus" (X.8) by Charles Lloyd (1821)

Bibliography

(S. K.)

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