Research Catalog

Title

Proensa : an anthology of troubadour poetry / selected and translated by Paul Blackburn ; edited and introduced by George Economou.

Publication

• New York : New York Review of Books, [2016]
• ©1978

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Details

Additional Authors

• Blackburn, Paul, 1926-1971,
• Economou, George

Description

xxiv, 325 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

"The poetry of the Provençal troubadours has had a profound influence on the development of the lyric, from Dante and Petrarch to Ezra Pound and the Black Mountain poets, despite the difficulty of Old Provençal, or Occitan, the original language of the troubadours. The renewed interest of the English-speaking world in troubadour poetry was initiated in the early twentieth century by Pound's criticism and translations of the troubadours. Yet no poet writing in English has done more for this body of work than the American poet and translator Paul Blackburn, who devoted more than twenty years to the study and translation of occitan ancien. Proensa is the result of that long commitment, an anthology of thirty troubadour poets of the eleventh through thirteenth centuries. It is a dexterous and spirited work of translation, which, as George Economou writes in his introduction, "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"--

Series Statement

New York Review Books Classics

Uniform Title

New York Review Books classics.

Alternative Title

Anthology of troubadour poetry

Subject

• Provençal poetry > Translations into English
• Troubadours

Note

• Translated from the French.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 323-325).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781681370309
• 1681370301
• 9781681370316 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2016020308

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library