Excerpt from The History of English Poetry, From the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century, Vol. 3: To Which Are Prefixed Two Dissertations: On the Origin of Romantic Fiction in Europe; On the Introduction of Learning Into England P E TR A R C H jonnets. Lord Surrey. Hi: education, tra 'velt, Ini/lrefr, life, and poetry He is tbe fir/l writer of blank wen/e. Italian blank-cede. Surrey tbefirfl Engli/b elafe poet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.