Lanterna Rally

Author: St. John Lucas

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-25

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 9780331944129

Excerpt from The Oxford Book of French Verse: Xiiith Century-Xixth Century When exactl the poetry of the troubadours first be an pro 1 was about the time w en e Lyon was lying in a German prison and Bertran de Born riding to battle at the head of the lords of Aquitaine. The Courts of the North were visited by the troubadours; those of Eleanor of Poitiers, wife of our Henry II, and of her daughter Marie of Champagne, became famous for their refinement; and early in the thirteenth century the singers of Champagne and Picardy began to use the most characteristic forms of Provencal verse: the tenfon, an argument between two poets; the alba and the screw, sung at dawn and at evening beneath the window of the beloved; and the ebamon, a form governed by highly complicated rules. Chretien de Troics, Tibaut de Cham pagne, Gace Brule, conbfi'firbethupe, - these are some of the writers whose songs keep for us a faint fragrance of those far-off, passionate days, and are relics of the early sweetness that Pater found in Jacam'a at N icolele. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.