John Gower, The French Balades
By (author) John Gower Edited by R. F. Yeager
Paperback (Published)
(May 2011)
ISBN: 9781580441551
7.01 x 10 inches
Price: $14.95
In stock
Gower’s imaginative French poetry is now available in a new edition with facing page translation, annotations, and introduction. Gower’s Traitie employs the French poetic form of balade, typically used for courtly verses, to avow instead the virtues of loving marriage, characteristic of Gower’s signature moralizing. His Cinkante Balades confront the tradition of the French Livre de Cent Balades, by describing the feelings of a young man towards his lady, but eventually offering a praise of love insofar as it is subject to reason and morality. Together the two works offer an excellent introduction to the Anglo-Norman works of Gower and are perfect for classroom use.
Acknowledgments General Introduction Traitie selonc les auctours pour essampler les amantz marietz Introduction Text Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Cinkante Balades Introduction Text Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Appendix 1: A Translation of the Traitie (Quixley) Appendix 2: A Note on Gower's French by Brian Merrilees Bibliography, Acknowledgments
General Introduction
Traitié selonc les auctours pour essampler les amantz marietz
Introduction
Text
Explanatory Notes
Textual Notes
Cinkante Balades
Introduction
Text
Explanatory Notes
Textual Notes
Appendix 1: A Translation of the Traitié (Quixley)
Appendix 2: A Note on Gower's French by Brian Merrilees
Bibliography
- By (author) John Gower
- Edited by R. F. Yeager
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Two Middle English Prayer Cycles
Holkham, "Prayers and Meditations" and Simon Appulby, "Fruyte of Redempcyon"
Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and Music, Volume 1
The Debate Poems: Le Jugement dou Roy de Behaigne, Le Jugement dou Roy de Navarre, Le Lay de Plour
Sentimental and Humorous Romances
Floris and Blancheflour, Sir Degrevant, The Squire of Low Degree, The Tournament of Tottenham, and The Feast of Tottenham
The Dialogue of Solomon and Marcolf
A Dual-Language Edition from Latin and Middle English Printed Editions
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