An Introduction to Old Provençal VersificationThe major portion of this study is devoted to the lyric poems of the 12th & 13th century which constitute Southern France's greatest contribution to world literature. Nevertheless, chronology requires that this study begins by glancing briefly at two narrative pieces, the oldest Provencal poems of which we have any knowledge. Contents: The Earliest Provencal Verse: "Boeci," & the "Chanson de Sainte Foy"; Guilhem VII, Comte de Peitieu (or Peiteus); Marcabru; Marcabru's Contemporaries; "Trobar clus"; "Trobar leu"; The Generation of '80; Thematic Genres in the 13th Century; Genres Based on Form; Non-lyric Genres; & Bibliography. |
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... example , begin sonnet with these lines : Non ha l'ottimo artista alcun concetto ch'un marmo solo in sè non circonscriva col suo soverchio , e solo a quello arriva la man che obbedisce all ' intelletto . In these verses , ottimo ...
... example , begin sonnet with these lines : Non ha l'ottimo artista alcun concetto ch'un marmo solo in sè non circonscriva col suo soverchio , e solo a quello arriva la man che obbedisce all ' intelletto . In these verses , ottimo ...
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... Examples come readily to hand fi Boeci : las mias musas qui ant perdut lor cant ! de sapiencia anava eu ditan ... ( 77-78 ) Hanc no fo om , ta gran vertut agues . ( 92 ) el eral meler de tota la onor . ( 36 ) All the italicized words ...
... Examples come readily to hand fi Boeci : las mias musas qui ant perdut lor cant ! de sapiencia anava eu ditan ... ( 77-78 ) Hanc no fo om , ta gran vertut agues . ( 92 ) el eral meler de tota la onor . ( 36 ) All the italicized words ...
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... example , has lines of varying length throughout , and the Chanson de Roland contains a number of irregular lines . My own feeling is that the few exceptionally long or short verses in Boeci strike the ear as patently wrong , and one ...
... example , has lines of varying length throughout , and the Chanson de Roland contains a number of irregular lines . My own feeling is that the few exceptionally long or short verses in Boeci strike the ear as patently wrong , and one ...
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... example , these of Raimbaut de queiras : No m'agrad ' iverns ni pascors ni clars temps ni fuoills de garrics , car mos enans mi par destrics e totz mos majer gaugz dolors , e son maltrag tuit miei lezer e desesperat miei esper ; e sim ...
... example , these of Raimbaut de queiras : No m'agrad ' iverns ni pascors ni clars temps ni fuoills de garrics , car mos enans mi par destrics e totz mos majer gaugz dolors , e son maltrag tuit miei lezer e desesperat miei esper ; e sim ...
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... examples of a number of features which occur also in the troubadour lyrics that followed : epic cesura , synalepha , elision , hiatus , masculine and feminine rimes , and the method of counting syllables- familiar to us from French ...
... examples of a number of features which occur also in the troubadour lyrics that followed : epic cesura , synalepha , elision , hiatus , masculine and feminine rimes , and the method of counting syllables- familiar to us from French ...
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Aldric amor Arnaut balada Bel m'es Bernart Bernart de Ventadorn Bertran Boeci canso Cercamon Cerveri cesura chan chansoneta chansons de geste chantar chapter coblas coblas doblas coblas singulars coblas unissonans Companho compositions contrafacta Count of Poitou d'amor dansa decasyllables descort Dieu edition epic cesura feminine heptasyllables feminine rimes flors Frank French Gaucelm genre Giraut de Bornelh gran heterometric imitation internal rimes isometric Jeanroy joglar laisses lines lyric m'en manuscript Marcabru Marti masculine and feminine masculine octosyllables meter metrical motz Old Provençal paroxytonic pastorela pattern Peire Cardenal pieces poems poésie poet poet's pretz Provençal versification qu'ieu quan quar que·l quoted Raimbaut Raimon refrain respos retroencha rime-scheme rime-sounds rims estramps Riquer sirventes song stanza structure syllables synalepha temps tenso tornada totz trobar clus troubadour tune unstressed Ventadorn verses vida vowel vuoill word-refrain words
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Page 2 - L'homme y passe a travers des forets de symboles Qui 1'observent avec des regards familiers. Comme de longs echos qui de loin se confondent Dans une tenebreuse et profonde unite, Vaste comme la nuit et comme la clarte, Les parfums, les couleurs et les sons se repondent.
Page 21 - How much better thou'rt attended Than the- Son of God could be, When from heaven He descended And became a child like thee...
Page 71 - II faut aussi que tu n'ailles point Choisir tes mots sans quelque meprise: Rien de plus cher que la chanson grise Ou 1'Indecis au Precis se joint.
Page 95 - Ar resplan la flors enversa Pels trencans rancx e pels tertres, Cals flors? Neus, gels e conglapis Que cotz e destrenh e trenca; Don vey morz quils, critz, brays, siscles En fuelhs, en rams e en giscles Mas mi ten vert e jauzen joys Er quan vey secx los dolens croys.
Page 1 - Quella lettura, e scolorocci il viso : Ma solo un punto fu quel che ci vinse. Quando leggemmo il disiato riso Esser baciato da cotanto amante, Questi, che mai da me non fia diviso, La bocca mi baciò tutto tremante. Galeotto fu il libro, e chi lo scrisse : Quel giorno più non vi leggemmo avante. Mentre che F uno spirto questo disse, L' altro piangeva sì, che di pietade Io venni men, così com' io morisse, E caddi come corpo morto cade.
Page 185 - Planher vuelh en Blacatz en aquest leugier so, ab cor trist e marrit; et ai en be razo...
Page 114 - Lo tems vai e ven e vire per jorns, per mes e per ans, et eu, las!, no.n sai que dire, c'ades es us mos talans. Ades es us e no.s muda, c'una.n volh en ai volguda, don anc non aic jauzimen.
Page 14 - Farai un vers de dreyt nien Guillem de Peiteus Farai un verse de dreyt nien: Non er de mi ni d'autra gen, Non er d'amor ni de joven, Ni de ren au, Qu'enans fo trobatz en durmen Sobre chevau. No sai en qual hora-m fuy natz: No suy alegres ni iratz, No suy estrayns ni sui privatz, Ni no-n puesc au, Qu'enaissi fuy de nueitz fadatz, Sobr
Page 118 - Can vei la lauzeta mover de joi sas alas contral rai, que s'oblid' es laissa chazer per la doussor c'al cor li vai, ai! tan grans enveya m'en ve de cui qu'eu veya jauzion, meravilhas ai, car desse lo cor de dezirer no-m fön.