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Songs from a single eye
- Title
- Songs from a single eye / Oswald von Wolkenstein ; translated from the Middle High German with vita and notes by Richard Sieburth ; foreword by Siegfried Walter de Rachewiltz.
- Author
- Wolkenstein, Oswald von, 1377?-1445
- Publication
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [2019]
- ©2019
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- Description
- 68 pages : illustrations, music; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "The one-eyed singer, songwriter, and knight errant Oswald von Wolkenstein (surname literally "Cloud-Stone") was among the last of the great troubadours. A contemporary of Villon, versed in Petrarch, and a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, Wolkenstein was lost to history until scholarship in the 1970s recognized him as the German language's first genuinely autobiographical lyric voice. In the hands of the magician-translator Richard Sieburth, working in the spirited tradition of Ezra Pound and Paul Blackburn, Wolkenstein's verse rises from the page like a medieval Bob Dylan. Facsimiles of Wolkenstein's musical compositions are included"--
- Series Statement
- New Directions poetry pamphlet ; #27
- Uniform Title
- Poems. Selections. English
- New Directions poetry pamphlets ; 27.
- Alternative Title
- Poems.
- Subjects
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Middle High German into English.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-4656
- ISBN
- 9780811229012
- 0811229017
- LCCN
- 2019026075
- 40029682776
- OCLC
- 1085224400
- Author
- Wolkenstein, Oswald von, 1377?-1445, author.
- Title
- Songs from a single eye / Oswald von Wolkenstein ; translated from the Middle High German with vita and notes by Richard Sieburth ; foreword by Siegfried Walter de Rachewiltz.
- Publisher
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New Directions poetry pamphlet ; #27New Directions poetry pamphlets ; 27.
- Language
- Translated from the Middle High German into English.
- Chronological Term
- 1050-1500
- Added Author
- Sieburth, Richard, translator.Rachewiltz, Siegfried de, 1947- writer of foreword.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029682776
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-4656