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Lark in the Morning
Robert Kehew
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Description for Lark in the Morning
Paperback. This bilingual edition contains an introduction to the three major periods of the troubadours - their beginning, rise, and decline - as well as headnotes that briefly put each poet in context. Lark in the Morning will become an essential collection for those interested in learning about and teaching the origins of Western vernacular poetry. Editor(s): Kehew, Robert. Translator(s): Pound, Ezra; Snodgrass, W. D.; Kehew, Robert. Num Pages: 280 pages, 4halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DCQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 586.
Although the troubadours flourished at the height of the Middle Ages in southern France, their songs of romantic love, with pleasing melodies and intricate stanzaic patterns, have inspired poets and songwriters ever since, from Dante to Chaucer, from Renaissance sonneteers to the Romantics, and from Verlaine and Rimbaud to modern rock lyricists. Yet despite the incontrovertible influence of the troubadours on the development of both poetry and music in the West, there existed no comprehensive anthology of troubadour lyrics that respected the verse form of the originals until now. Lark in the Morning honors the meter, word play, punning, and ... Read more
Although the troubadours flourished at the height of the Middle Ages in southern France, their songs of romantic love, with pleasing melodies and intricate stanzaic patterns, have inspired poets and songwriters ever since, from Dante to Chaucer, from Renaissance sonneteers to the Romantics, and from Verlaine and Rimbaud to modern rock lyricists. Yet despite the incontrovertible influence of the troubadours on the development of both poetry and music in the West, there existed no comprehensive anthology of troubadour lyrics that respected the verse form of the originals until now. Lark in the Morning honors the meter, word play, punning, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226429335
SKU
V9780226429335
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About Robert Kehew
Robert Kehew is an independent scholar, translator, and troubadour enthusiast.
Reviews for Lark in the Morning
"Kehew is quite correct in recognizing the need to convey what troubadour poetry was like as a lyric, as poetry. What's available in English and French by way of anthologies of the troubadours tends to be prose translations, whose pretension to linguistic accuracy can hardly compensate for their clunky renditions. In Lark in the Morning, we have an anthology of ... Read more