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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 Provencal poetry were a way of penetrating an alien sensibility and culture and makin



Table of Contents
*Frontmatter, pg. i*Acknowledgments, pg. vii*Abbreviated Titles by Which Ezra Pound's Works Are Cited, pg. ix*Table of Contents, pg. xi*Introduction: The Possibilities of Provence, pg. 1*I. The Search for a Language: Early Translations, pg. 8*II. Resuscitation of the Past: The Provengal Personae, pg. 40*III. Toward an Empyrean of Pure Light: The Radiant Medieval World, pg. 70*IV. Exercises in the Mother Tongue: Versions of Daniel, pg. 102*V. Provence Revisited: "Homage a la Langue d'Oc", pg. 121*VI. The Permanence of Provence, pg. 140*Index, pg. 153*Princeton Essays in European and Comparative Literature, pg. 160

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 08/03/2015
      ISBN13: 9780691619361, 978-0691619361
      ISBN10: 0691619360

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 Provencal poetry were a way of penetrating an alien sensibility and culture and makin



      Table of Contents
      *Frontmatter, pg. i*Acknowledgments, pg. vii*Abbreviated Titles by Which Ezra Pound's Works Are Cited, pg. ix*Table of Contents, pg. xi*Introduction: The Possibilities of Provence, pg. 1*I. The Search for a Language: Early Translations, pg. 8*II. Resuscitation of the Past: The Provengal Personae, pg. 40*III. Toward an Empyrean of Pure Light: The Radiant Medieval World, pg. 70*IV. Exercises in the Mother Tongue: Versions of Daniel, pg. 102*V. Provence Revisited: "Homage a la Langue d'Oc", pg. 121*VI. The Permanence of Provence, pg. 140*Index, pg. 153*Princeton Essays in European and Comparative Literature, pg. 160

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