Ezra Pound and the Troubadour Tradition / / Stuart Y. McDougal.

The world of the troubadours of medieval Provence-of Bertran de Born, Arnaut de Mareuil, and Peire Bremon lo Tort-always fascinated Ezra Pound and, as Stuart McDougal shows, provided both themes and techniques for his early poetry.Pound's first translations of Provençal poetry were a way of pen...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1973
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Essays in Literature ; 1404
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Physical Description:1 online resource (174 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviated Titles by Which Ezra Pound's Works Are Cited
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction: The Possibilities of Provence
  • I. The Search for a Language: Early Translations
  • II. Resuscitation of the Past: The Provengal Personae
  • III. Toward an Empyrean of Pure Light: The Radiant Medieval World
  • IV. Exercises in the Mother Tongue: Versions of Daniel
  • V. Provence Revisited: "Homage a la Langue d'Oc"
  • VI. The Permanence of Provence
  • Index
  • Princeton Essays in European and Comparative Literature