E-Books →Proensa An Anthology of Troubadour Poetry

George Economou, Paul Blackburn, "Proensa: An Anthology of Troubadour Poetry"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1681370301 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 2.3 mb
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.