Love Lyrics from the Carmina Burana - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807844004 ISBN 13: 9780807844007

Publisher: University North Carolina Pr, 1993

Synopsis

Walsh's book should be a vade mecum for anyone who would teach the Carmina Burana on any level and be of considerable value in general to medievalists, comparatists, and those in related disciplines.""-- New England Classical Newsletter and Journal ""Teachers, students, and any reader interested in medieval lyric will find this volume a clear and useful approach to intrinsically interesting texts.""-- Renaissance Quarterly ""The most scholarly and most helpful presentation of a group of these captivating lyrics that has yet appeared in English.""--Peter Dronke, University of Cambridge ""A superb volume, fully worthy of these famous but often misunderstood poems. P. G. Walsh's unmatched erudition in Latin literature furnishes lucid grammatical explanations, incisive analysis of goliardic literary values and technique, and illuminating references to ancient and medieval parallels. His prose translations make the poems accessible also to those with little or no Latin.""--Janet M. Martin, Princeton University

About this title

Product Description:

The Carmina Burana is the finest surviving collection of medieval Latin lyrics, especially love lyrics. These poems - many of them composed to be sung - are mostly the work of teachers and students in the schools of the twelfth century. They vary in subject and style, and in addition to love lyrics, they include drinking songs, religious poems, pastoral lyrics, and satires of church and government. This anthology contains sixty love lyrics from the Carmina Burana in the original Latin, with prose translations and commentaries by noted Latinist P. G. Walsh. In his commentaries, Walsh explains postclassical aspects of morphology, spelling, vocabulary, and syntax and provides a well-informed analysis of literary antecedents and techniques. The book will be valuable for Latin students and in courses in medieval literature and history, comparative literature, and English literature.

Review:

"A superb volume, fully worthy of these famous but often misunderstood poems.

Janet M. Martin, Princeton University"

Any reader interested in medieval lyric will find this volume a clear and useful approach to intrinsically interesting texts.

"Renaissance Quarterly"

"The most scholarly and most helpful presentation of a group of these captivating lyrics that has yet appeared in English.

Peter Dronke, University of Cambridge"

"Walsh's book should be . . . of considerable value in general to medievalists, comparatists, and those in related disciplines.

"New England Classical Newsletter and Journal""

A superb volume, fully worthy of these famous but often misunderstood poems.

Janet M. Martin, Princeton University

The most scholarly and most helpful presentation of a group of these captivating lyrics that has yet appeared in English.

Peter Dronke, University of Cambridge

Walsh's book should be . . . of considerable value in general to medievalists, comparatists, and those in related disciplines.

"New England Classical Newsletter and Journal"

About this edition

• Publisher: University North Carolina Pr
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0807844004
• ISBN 13: 9780807844007
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256