Name: The Mays of Ventadorn

Author: W. S. Merwin
Year: 2002
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9780792265382
0792265386

W.S. Merwin, one of the great contemporary English-language poets, turns to prose here in a brilliantly evocative re-creation of a distant past--as well as an exquisite rendering of his own romance with an abandoned farmhouse in the magical countryside of Southwest France. The Mays of Ventadorn: Tales from Southwest France illuminates the origins of the famous 12th-century Provencal troubadours, beginning with the great Bernart de Ventadorn whose work Merwin first encountered as a young translator of the archaic language known as Old Occitan. The timeless beauty of the troubadours' pastoral songs and narrative poems has enabled them to survive for 900 years, far outlasting the language from which they sprang.



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