Trobador Poets
Author : Barbara Smythe
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 1911
Category : English poetry
ISBN :
Author : Barbara Smythe
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 1911
Category : English poetry
ISBN :
Author : William Doremus Paden
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 11,90 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Provençal poetry
ISBN : 9781843841296
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,42 MB
Release : 1911
Category : English poetry
ISBN :
Author : George Economou
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,92 MB
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1681370301
It was out of medieval Provence—Proensa—that the ethos of courtly love emerged, and it was in the poetry of the Provençal troubadours that it found its perfect expression. Their poetry was also a central inspiration for Dante and his Italian contemporaries, propagators of the modern vernacular lyric, and seven centuries later it was no less important to the modernist Ezra Pound. These poems, a source to which poetry has returned again and again in search of renewal, are subtle, startling, earthy, erotic, and supremely musical. The poet Paul Blackburn studied and translated the troubadours for twenty years, and the result of that long commitment is Proensa, an anthology of thirty poets of the eleventh through thirteenth centuries, which has since established itself not only as a powerful and faithful work of translation but as a work of poetry in its own right. Blackburn’s Proensa, George Economou writes, “will take its place among Gavin Douglas’ Aeneid, Golding’s Metamorphoses, the Homer of Chapman, Pope, and Lattimore, Waley’s Japanese, and Pound’s Chinese, Italian, and Old English.”
Author : Eliza Zingesser
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 11,61 MB
Release : 2020-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501747649
Stolen Song documents the act of cultural appropriation that created a founding moment for French literary history: the rescripting and domestication of troubadour song, a prestige corpus in the European sphere, as French. This book also documents the simultaneous creation of an alternative point of origin for French literary history—a body of faux-archaic Occitanizing songs. Most scholars would find the claim that troubadour poetry is the origin of French literature uncomplicated and uncontroversial. However, Stolen Song shows that the "Frenchness" of this tradition was invented, constructed, and confected by francophone medieval poets and compilers keen to devise their own literary history. Stolen Song makes a major contribution to medieval studies both by exposing this act of cultural appropriation as the origin of the French canon and by elaborating a new approach to questions of political and cultural identity. Eliza Zingesser shows that these questions, usually addressed on the level of narrative and theme, can also be fruitfully approached through formal, linguistic, and manuscript-oriented tools.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 13,87 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Provençal poetry
ISBN : 9780841476127
Author : Sarah Kay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,51 MB
Release : 1990-09-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521372380
The songs of the troubadour poets of the south of France were a pervasive influence in the development of the European lyric (and indeed other genres) from the twelfth century to the Renaissance and beyond. Much troubadour poetry is on the topic of love, and is composed from a first-person position. This book is a full-length study of this first-person subject position in its relation to language and society. Using theoretical approaches where appropriate, Sarah Kay discusses to what extent this first person is a 'self' or 'character', and how far it is self-determining. Dr Kay draws on a wide range of troubadour texts, and provides close readings of many of them, as well as translating all medieval quotations into English in order to make the discussion accessible to the non-specialist. Her book will be of interest both to scholars of medieval literature, and to anybody investigating subjectivity in lyric poetry.
Author : Robert Kehew
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 723 pages
File Size : 38,78 MB
Release : 2005-09-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0226429334
Robert Kehew augments his own verse translations with those of Pound & Snodgrass, to provide a collection that captures both the poetic pyrotechnics of the original verse & the astonishing variety of troubadour voices.
Author : A. Kline
Publisher :
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,27 MB
Release : 2018-07-17
Category :
ISBN : 9781722867010
From Dawn to Dawn - Troubadour Poetry. Translated into English from the Occitan by A. S. Kline. Published with commentary notes and illustrations courtesy of the public domain collections of the British Library. The troubadour tradition of lyric poetry originated in eleventh century Occitania - a region comprising what is now southern France together with portions of Catalonia and northern Italy. Occitania, whilst a cultural union linguistically founded on the Occitan language, was neither a legal nor political entity in its own right. The troubadour school of Occitan poetical and musical fiction, rich in genre and satire, concerned itself principally with the twin themes of chivalry and courtly love. Spreading across Europe over two and a half centuries, the tradition eventually waned in popularity and died out around the time of the Black Death. This selection of Occitan poetry comprises verse of poetic merit rather than that of purely historic interest. The translations herein aim to preserve, in some measure, the rhyming schemes of the originals. The form of Occtian poems was at least half their art - with crucially many being set to music, of which much survives. This and other texts available from Poetry in Translation
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 20,79 MB
Release : 1929
Category : Provena̧l poetry
ISBN :