Research Catalog

Title

Lyrics of the Middle Ages / edited by Hubert Creekmore.

Publication

New York : Grove Press, [1959]

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Details

Additional Authors

Creekmore, Hubert, 1907-1966

Description

xxi, 278 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

From the Introduction: The literature of the Middle Ages has been unduly neglected in this century, especially in the lyric phase, by both the teacher and the reader. For the reader, let it be said that he has had scant opportunity to do otherwise than neglect, unless he sought out old books in a library. New books have offered him little more than the scattered introductory sections in anthologies of translation, and the scholarly collections of early English poetry. Two or three recent anthologies of medieval writing give so little lyric poetry that it seems to have been considered rather a necessary blemish among the pages of prose than a brilliant manifestation of the spirit of the times. This collection is intended to fill the gap in a modest way, but is not a remedy for academic deficiencies I may touch upon later. It is, I believe, the first anthology to present only medieval poetry in translation in a broader than national scope. As for those teachers whom I charge at the outset, they tend, in the main, to stress medieval historical events, social and economic revolutions, and religious thought. When they turn to literature at all, it is usually to the long narrative poems, romances and epics. The student has, it is true, in English courses, a smattering of medieval creative writing before Chaucer tossed at him-The Shepherd's Play or Everyman, fragments from Morte Arthur or Gawaine and the Green Knight, Beowulf, and a handful of lyrics. The effect of this isolation from the main stream of European literature, in lyric poetry particularly, is to instill in the student the notion that for a thousand years almost nothing was written that might interest him. It is, then, easy for him to accept the term, "Dark Ages", and seek brighter reading matter elsewhere.-- page xv.

Subject

• Geschichte 400-1500
• Poetry, Medieval
• Lyric poetry
• Anthologie
• Lyrik

Genre/Form

• Lyric poetry.
• Poésie lyrique.

Contents

• Introduction -- Greek-Note: -- Praise of women / Palladas, Dudley Fitts -- O man, remember / D L Feldstone -- Tantalos / Paulus Silentiarius, Dudley Fitts -- Inscription for a Smyrna privy / Agathias Scholasticus, Dudley Fitts -- Latin-Note: -- Old man of Verona / Claudius Claudianus, Abraham Cowley -- Search for truth / Boethius, Jack Lindsay -- Venantius Fortunatus: -- Hymn to the Holy Cross / J M Neale and Chambers -- To Queen Radigunde with herbs and violets / Jack Lindsay -- To a runaway pupil / Alcuin, Jack Lindsay -- To his friend in absence / Walafrid Strabo, Helen Waddell -- Good Friday / Peter Abelard, Jack Lindsay -- Abelard: -- Rumor Laetalis / Kenneth Rexroth -- Dum Diana Vitrea / George F Whicher -- Confession of Golias / Archpoet of Cologne, George F Whicher -- Anonymous: -- Flora / J A Symonds -- Vow to cupid / J A Symonds -- Flowering time / George F Whicher -- Song of cash / Jack Lindsay -- Sweetness of spring / J A Symonds -- Veni Creator Spiritus / Anonymous, John Dryden -- Dies Irae / Thomas of Celano, Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Provencal-Note: -- Poem / Guillem IX, Count of Poitou, Hubert Creekmore -- Pastorela / Marcabrun, Hubert Creekmore -- Bernard de Ventadorn: -- No marvel is it / Harriet W Preston -- Canso / Barbara Smythe -- Canso / Giraut de Bornelh, Hubert Creekmore -- Disavowal / Bertrans de Born, Edgar Taylor -- Canso / Arnaut Daniel, Harriet W Preston -- Vexational / Monk of Montaudon, Hubert Creekmore -- Sirventes / Peire Cardenal, Hubert Creekmore --French-Note: -- Unicorn / Philippe de Thaon, Richard Beaumont -- Anonymous Chansons de Toile : -- Fair Erembor / W J Linton -- Poor me / Richard Beaumont -- Three sisters / Richard Beaumont -- Anonymous: -- Song / Claude C Abbott -- Encounter / Claude C Abbott -- Chanson / Chatelain of Coucy, Louisa S Costello -- Too late, my love / Conon de Bethune, Claude C Abbott -- Thibaut of Champagne: -- Chanson / Henry Adams -- Chanson: Leaving on crusade / Louisa S Costello -- Complaint of the minstrel's life / Colin Muset, J G Legge -- Song from Chartivel / Marie de France, Arthur O'Shaughnessy -- Poet's poverty / Rutebeuf, J G Legge -- Virelay / Jean Froissart, Louisa S Costello -- If frequently to mass / Christine de Pisan, J G Legge -- Charles d'Orleans: -- Rondel to his mistress / Andrew Lang -- Rondeau of spring / W E Henley -- Rondeau: the well / Barbara Howes -- Ballade written during captivity in England / Alan Conder -- Ballade: Hostelry of thought / Barbara Howes -- Francois Villon: -- His mother's service to our lady / D G Rossetti -- Epistle in form of a ballad to his friends / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Ballade of the hanged men / Robert Fitzgerald -- Lament of the lovely helmet-dealer / Hubert Creekmore -- Portuguese (Galician)-Note: -- Barcarola / Joan Zorro, Seth G Thornton -- Cantiga de Amigo / Martin Codax, Seth G Thornton -- Alvorada / Nuno Fernandes Tornoel, Seth G Thornton -- Pero Meogo: -- Cantiga de Amigo / Seth G Thornton -- Cossante / Seth G Thornton -- Barcarola / Roy Fernandez, Seth G Thornton -- Balaida / Airas Nunez, Seth G Thornton -- Cantiga de Santa Maria / King Alfonso X, Seth G Thornton -- King Dinis, Seth G Thornton: -- Cossante -- Cantiga de Amor -- Alvorada -- Gil Vincente, Seth G Thornton: -- Cantiga -- Esparsa -- Spanish (Castilian)-Note: -- Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita, Hubert Creekmore: -- Mountain song -- Street song -- Anonymous Romances: -- Mudarra and Rodrigo / James Y Gibson -- Moorish King who lost Alhama / Lord Byron -- Montesinos and Durandarte / Thomas Rodd -- Count Arnaldos / Richard Beaumont -- Anonymous: -- Two songs / Richard Beaumont -- Four songs / Seth G Thornton -- Villancio for his three daughters / Marques de Santillana, Richard Beaumont -- Coplas on the death of his father / Jorge Manrique, H W Longfellow -- Italian-Note: -- Canzonetta / Jacopo da Lentino, D G Rossetti -- Dialogue of the body with the soul / Jacopone da Todi, Hubert Creekmore -- Canzone of the gentle heart / Guido Guinicelli, D G Rossetti -- Sonnet / Rustico di Filippo, D G Rossetti -- Guido Cavalcanti: -- Sonnet / Ezra Pound -- To Dante / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Ballata / Hubert Creekmore -- Sonnet / Cecco Angiolieri, D G Rossetti -- Dante Alighieri: -- Canzone / D G Rossetti -- Sonnet / D G Rossetti -- To Guido Cavalcanti / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Canzone / D G Rossetti -- Banquet: Dissertation 2, Canzone I / Howard Nemerov -- All ye that pass / D G Rossetti -- Sonnet to the Lady Pietra / D G Rossetti -- Desperate / Cino da Pistoia, L R Lind -- Folgore da San Geminiano, D G Rossetti: -- March -- May -- Francesco Petrarch: -- Against the court of Rome / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- Canzone / Morris Bishop -- Complaint of a lover rebuked / Earl of Surrey -- Nightingale / Thomas LeMesurier -- Giovanni Boccacio: -- Apology for love / John Dryden -- Sonnet / T G Bergin -- Welsh-Note: -- Aneirin, D S Evans: -- Of manly disposition -- Lost legion -- Dialogue between poet and patron / Taliesin, D S Evans -- For little Dinogad / Anonymous, H Idris Bell -- Love poem / Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd, H Idris Bell -- Death of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd / Gruffudd ab yr Ynad Coch, Gwyn Williams -- Dafydd ap Gwilym, : -- To the nun / H Idris Bell -- Snowy day / H Idris Bell -- Seagull / David Bell-- He desires her husband's death / David Bell -- On the death of his son / Lewis Glyn Cothi, Gwyn Williams.
• Irish-Note: -- Anonymous: -- In praise of Aed / Robin Flower -- Four short poems / Owen Masters -- Summer is gone / Sean O'Faolain -- Pangur Ban / Robin Flower -- Fand Yields Cuchulain to Emer / Sean O'Faolain -- May / Frank O'Connor -- Man and bird and God / Owen Masters -- Storm at sea / Robin Flower -- Good old Finn / Owen Masters -- Crazy Sweeney's song of the woods / Owen Masters -- At Saint Patrick's purgatory / Donnachadh mor O'Dala, Sean O'Faolain -- Old Norse-Note: -- Beginning and the end / Anonymous, Henry Adams Bellows -- Three songs to Steingerd / Cormac Ogmundarson, W G Collingwood and Jon Stefansson -- Death song of Haakon the Good / Eyvindr Finsson, O L Oliver -- Danish-Note: -- Anonymous Ballads: -- Elected knight / H W Longfellow -- Avenging daughters -- Maiden Hind / E M Smith-Dampier -- Aager and Eliza / Anonymous translator -- Dutch-Note: -- Hadewijch, A J Barnouw: -- Eighteenth song -- Nineteenth song -- German-Note: -- Reward of service / Anonymous, F C Nicholson -- Dietmar von Aist: -- Linden tree / Edgar Taylor -- Dawn song / O L Oliver -- Knight of Kurenberg: -- Falcon / Margarete Munsterberg -- Star / Margaret R Richey -- Civil War / Friedrich von Hausen, F C Nicholson -- Scales of love / Hartmann von Aue, Jethro Bithell -- Heinrich von Morungen: -- Two remember dawn / Margaret R Richey -- Song / Edgar Taylor -- Dream and image / Jethro Bithell -- Reinmar von Hagenau: -- Deduction / Margaret R Richey -- Meadow and my lady / F C Nicholson -- Hope for miracles / Wolfram von Eschenbach, Jethro Bithell -- Walther von der Vogelweide: -- Blessed be the hour / Margarete Munsterberg -- Oracle / Margarete Munsterberg -- For one of low degree / Margaret R Richey -- Under the Linden / O L Oliver -- Fortitude / Reinmar von Sweter, Jethro Bithell -- On the mountain / Neidhart von Reuenthal, Jethro Bithell -- Westphalian song / Anonymous, Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Anglo-Saxon and Middle English-Note: -- Anonymous: -- Wife's lament / Charles W Kennedy -- Seafarer / Ezra Pound -- Grave / Charles W Kennedy -- Summer -- Woman's love / Robert Mannyng of Brunne -- Anonymous: -- Spring song -- Song of ploughing -- Adam lay bound -- Lytyll Prety Nyghtyngale -- Geoffrey Chaucer: -- Ballade: Hyde, Absalon -- Rondel: Now welcome, somer -- Complaint unto pity -- Bill of complaint -- Song / Anonymous.

LCCN

58009911

OCLC

• ocm01737166
• 1737166
• SCSB-116843

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library