Ezra Pound and the Troubadour Tradition

by Stuart Y. McDougal and Stuart Y McDougal

Book Overview

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 Proven al poetry were a way of penetrating an alien sensibility and culture and making it his own; they were also important technical exercises. Confronted with the problem of finding a suitable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691062366
• ISBN13: 9780691062365
• Release Date: February 1973
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.