Proensa: An Anthology of Troubadour Poetry (New York Review Books Classics)
by George Economou (Editor), Paul Blackburn (Translator)
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The poetry of the Provenpal 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 Provenpal, 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 show more 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. Proensais 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, owill 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.o show lessTags
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Another of those books I'd been waiting for. What an amazing poet Blackburn was; he brings these medieval poets to blazing contemporary life. "I'll tell you/ in my own way/ what I've seen/ and what I see."
Reprint. Orig. publ. University of California Press
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- Paul Blackburn published two collections of troubadour poetry called "Proensa." The first was 1953's "Proensa: From the Provencal of Guillem de Peitau, Arnaut de Marueill, Raimbutz de Vaquieras, Sordello, Bernart de Ventadorn... (show all), Peire Vidal, Bertran de Born." The second, an expansion of the first, is this work "Proensa: An Anthology of Troubadour Poetry," published posthumously in 1978, and edited by George Economou.
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