Peter Dronke
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
336
1991
This volume presents a series of penetrating analyses of particular poems and problems of literary history illustrating the many sides of medieval poetry and the interactions of learned popular and courtly traditions. The first and longest essay 'Waltharius-Gaiferos' aims to characterize the diverse treatments of one of the major European heroic themes - in modes that include lay and epic saga and ballad and range from pre-Carolingian times to the Renaissance. There follow three interrelated essays on the medieval transformations of Ovid and a larger group devoted to close reading of medieval lyrics. After discussing some brilliant Latin compositions of the 9th-12th centuries both sacred and profane and the work of two of the most captivating 'goliard' poets Peter Dronke looks at the earliest formations of love-lyric in two vernaculars Spanish and English. Finally he explores the unique symbiosis of Latin and vernacular imagery in two key moments of Dante's Divine Comedy.
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
336
1991
This volume presents a series of penetrating analyses of particular poems and problems of literary history illustrating the many sides of medieval poetry and the interactions of learned popular and courtly traditions. The first and longest essay 'Waltharius-Gaiferos' aims to characterize the diverse treatments of one of the major European heroic themes - in modes that include lay and epic saga and ballad and range from pre-Carolingian times to the Renaissance. There follow three interrelated essays on the medieval transformations of Ovid and a larger group devoted to close reading of medieval lyrics. After discussing some brilliant Latin compositions of the 9th-12th centuries both sacred and profane and the work of two of the most captivating 'goliard' poets Peter Dronke looks at the earliest formations of love-lyric in two vernaculars Spanish and English. Finally he explores the unique symbiosis of Latin and vernacular imagery in two key moments of Dante's Divine Comedy.