Ezra Pound and the Troubadour Tradition
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 Provençal poetry were a way of penetrating an alien sensibility and culture and making it his own; they were also important technical exer...
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 Provençal poetry were a way of penetrating an alien sensibility and culture and making it his own; they were also important technical exer...
