One Hundred Ballades, Rondeaux and Virelais from the Late Middle Ages

Dr Wilkins's anthology includes many of the finest poems of the French lyric poets.

Nigel Wilkins (Edited by)

9780521110327, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 7 May 2009

224 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.34 kg

French lyric poets of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries continued many of the traditions of the earlier Provencal troubadours and northern trouveres and they inherited and developed the fixed forms - the ballade, the rondeau and the virelai. Dr Wilkins's anthology includes many of the finest poems of this period, showing the diversity of themes and structure and their richness and vitality. In his introduction, Dr Wilkins explains the structure and derivation of the fixed forms and gives an exposition of the characteristic themes. A biographical note introduces each poet or school of poets and there is a commentary for each of the poems, bibliographies, a glossary and indexes.

Preface
Introduction
Jehan de Lescurel
Jehan Acart de Hesdin
Guillaume de Machaut
The post-Machaut generation
Jehan Froissart
Le livre des cent ballades
Eustache deschamps
Christine de Pisan
Alain Chartier
Fifteenth-century lyric pieces set to music
Charles D'Orleans
Notes
Musical examples
Bibliography
Glossary
Index of names
Alphabetical index of first lines.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]