Troubadour Poems from the South of France
Title | Troubadour Poems from the South of France PDF eBook |
Author | William Doremus Paden |
Publisher | DS Brewer |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Provençal poetry |
ISBN | 9781843841296 |
A Walking Tour in Southern France
Title | A Walking Tour in Southern France PDF eBook |
Author | Ezra Pound |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780811212236 |
Rummaging through his papers in 1958, Ezra Pound came across a cache of notebooks dating back to the summer of 1912, when as a young man he had walked the troubadour landscape of southern France. Pound had been fascinated with the poetry of medieval Provence since his college days. His experiments with the complex lyric forms of Arnaut Daniel, Bertran de Born, and others were included in his earliest books of poems; his scholarly pursuits in the field found their way into The Spirit of Romance (1910); and the troubadour mystique was to become a resonant motif of the Cantos. In the course of transcribing and emending the text of "Walking Tour 1912", editor Richard Sieburth retraced Pound's footsteps along the roads to the troubadour castles. "What this peripatetic editing process...revealed", he writes, "was a remarkably readable account of a journey in search of the vanished voices of Provence that at the same time chronicled Pound's gradual discovery of himself as a modernist poet...".
Songs of the Troubadours and Trouveres
Title | Songs of the Troubadours and Trouveres PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel N. Rosenberg |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 566 |
Release | 2013-09-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1134819218 |
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
From Dawn to Dawn
Title | From Dawn to Dawn PDF eBook |
Author | A. Kline |
Publisher | |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2018-07-17 |
Genre | |
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
Lark in the Morning
Title | Lark in the Morning PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Kehew |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 723 |
Release | 2005-09-15 |
Genre | 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.
Proensa
Title | Proensa PDF eBook |
Author | George Economou |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2017-01-10 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 168137031X |
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.”
Songs of the Women Troubadours
Title | Songs of the Women Troubadours PDF eBook |
Author | Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2004-11-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1135577803 |
This work offers an edition and translation of some 30 poems by the trobairitz, a remarkable group of women poets from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, who composed in the style and language of the troubadours. Introductory essays and notes by specialists in the field place the poems in literary, linguistic, historical, social and cultural contexts. English versions facing Occitan texts elucidate the original language and themes, while supplying poems that can be enjoyed by contemporary readers . The varied corpus includes love songs (cansos), debate poems (tensos), political satires (sirventes) and other lyrical sub-genres (including dawn-song, lament, ballad, chanson de mal mariee). To represent the range of female voices available in the lyric corpus of the troubadours, the editors have selected songs consistently attributed to historically documented women poets, as well as songs whose authorship is open to question. The latter may be presented by the manuscripts with or without a named woman poet, but all offer female speakers personae characteristic of troubadour poets in general.