The literature of the Middle Ages has been unduly neglected in this century, especially in the lyric phase, by both the teacher and the reader. For the reader, let it be said that he has had scant opportunity to do otherwise than neglect, unless he sought out old books in a library. New books have offered him little more than the scattered introductory sections in anthologies of translation, and the scholarly collections of early English poetry. Two or three recent anthologies of medieval writing give so little lyric poetry that it seems to have been considered rather a necessary blemish among the pages of prose than a brilliant manifestation of the spirit of the times. This collection is intended to fill the gap in a modest way, but is not a remedy for academic deficiencies I may touch upon later. It is, I believe, the first anthology to present only medieval poetry in translation in a broader than national scope. As for those teachers whom I charge at the outset, they tend, in the main, to stress medieval historical events, social and economic revolutions, and religious thought.
Author(s): Hubert Creekmore (ed.)
Publisher: Grove Press
Year: 1959
Language: English
Pages: 300
City: New York
GREEK - NOTE 3
Palladas — Praise of Women (Dudley Fitts) 4
— O Man, Remember (D. L. Feldstone) 5
Paulus Silentiarius — Tantalos (Dudley Fitts) 5
Agathias Scholasticus — Inscription For a Smyrna Privy (Dudley Fitts) 6
LATIN - NOTE 7
Claudius Claudianus — The Old Man of Verona (Abraham Cowley) 9
Boethius — The Search for Truth (Jack Lindsay) 10
Venantius Fortunatus — Hymn to the Holy Cross (J. M. Neale and Chambers) 12
— To Queen Radigunde With Herbs and Violets (Jack Lindsay) 13
Alcuin — To a Runaway Pupil (Jack Lindsay) 14
Walafrid Strabo — To His Friend in Absence (Helen Waddell) 15
Peter Abelard — Good Friday (Jack Lindsay) 16
Attributed to Abelard — Rumor Laetalis (Kenneth Rexroth) 17
Dum Diana Vitrea (George F. Whicher) 18
The Archpoet of Cologne — The Confession of Golias (George F. Whicher) 21
Anonymous — Flora (J. A. Symonds) 27
— The Vow to Cupid (J. A. Symonds) 29
— Flowering Time (George F. Whicher) 30
— A Song of Cash (Jack Lindsay) 32
— The Sweetness of Spring (J. A. Symonds) 34
— Veni Creator Spiritus (John Dryden) 34
Thomas of Celano — Dies Irae (Algernon Charles Swinburne) . 36
PROVENÇAL - NOTE 39
Guillem IX, Count of Poitou — Poem (Hubert Creekmore) 41
Marcabrun — Pastorela (Hubert Creekmore) 44
Bernard de Ventadorn — No Marvel Is it (Harriet W. Preston) 47
— Canso (Barbara Smythe) 48
Giraut de Bornelh — Canso (Hubert Creekmore) 49
Bertrans de Born — Disavowal (Edgar Taylor) 52
Arnaut Daniel — Canso (Harriet W. Preston) 53
The Monk of Montaudon — Vexational (Hubert Creekmore) 54
Peire Cardenal — Sirventes (Hubert Creekmore) 58
FRENCH — NOTE 61
Philippe de Thaon — The Unicorn (Richard Beaumont) 63
Anonymous Chansons de Toile — Fair Erembor (W. J. Linton) 65
— Poor Me (Richard Beaumont) 67
— Three Sisters (Richard Beaumont) 68
Anonymous — Song (Claude C. Abbott) 69
— Encounter (Claude C. Abbott) 70
The Chatelain of Coucy — Chanson (Louisa S. Costello) 72
Conon de Béthune — Too Late, My Love (Claude C. Abbott) 74
Thibaut of Champagne — Chanson (Henry Adams) 76
— Chanson: Leaving on Crusade (Louisa S. Costello) 77
Colin Muset — Complaint of the Minstrel’s Life (J. G. Legge) 78
Marie de France — Song from Chartivel (Arthur O’Shaughnessy) 80
Rutebeuf — The Poet’s Poverty (J. G. Legge) 82
Jean Froissart — Virelay (Louisa S. Costello) 84
Christine de Pisan — If Frequently to Mass (J. G. Legge) 85
Charles d’Orléans — Rondel to His Mistress (Andrew Lang) 86
— Rondeau of Spring (W. E. Henley) 86
— Rondeau: The Well (Barbara Howes) 87
— Ballade Written During Captivity in England (Alan Conder) 87
— Ballade: The Hostelry of Thought (Barbara Howes) 89
François Villon — His Mother’s Service to Our Lady (D. G. Rossetti) 90
— Epistle in Form of a Ballad to His Friends (Algernon Charles Swinburne) 91
— Ballade of the Hanged Men (Robert Fitzgerald) 92
— Lament of the Lovely Helmet-Dealer (Hubert Creekmore) 94
PORTUGUESE (GALICIAN) — NOTE 97
Joan Zorro — Barcarola (Seth G. Thornton) 99
Martin Codax — Cantiga de Amigo (Seth G. Thornton) 100
Nuno Fernandes Tornoel — Alvorada (Seth G. Thornton) 101
Pero Meogo — Cantiga de Amigo (Seth G. Thornton) 102
— Cossante (Seth G. Thornton) 103
Roy Fernandez — Barcarola (Seth G. Thornton) 104
Airas Nunez — Balaida (Seth G. Thornton) 105
King Alfonso X — Cantiga de Santa Maria (Seth G. Thornton) 106
King Dinis — Cossante (Seth G. Thornton) 108
— Cantiga de Amor (Seth G. Thornton) 109
— Alvorada (Seth G. Thornton) 110
Gil Vincente — Cantiga (Seth G. Thornton) 111
— Esparsa (Seth G. Thornton) 111
SPANISH (CASTILIAN)- NOTE 113
Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita — Mountain Song (Hubert Creekmore) 115
— Street Song (Hubert Creekmore) 118
Anonymous Romances — Mudarra and Rodrigo (James Y. Gibson) 119
— The Moorish King Who Lost Alhama (Lord Byron) 121
— Montesinos and Durandarte (Thomas Rodd) 123
— Count Arnaldos (Richard Beaumont) 124
Anonymous — Two Songs (Richard Beaumont) 125
— Four Songs (Seth G. Thornton) 126
Marqués de Santillana — Villancico For His Three Daughters (Richard Beaumont) 128
Jorge Manrique — Coplas on the Death of His Father (H. W. Longfellow) 129
ITALIAN — NOTE 145
Jacopo da Lentino — Canzonetta (D. G. Rossetti) 147
Jacopone da Todi — Dialogue of the Body with the Soul (Hubert Creekmore) 149
Guido Guinicelli — Canzone of the Gentle Heart (D. G. Rossetti) 151
Rustico di Filippo — Sonnet (D. G. Rossetti) 153
Guido Cavalcanti — Sonnet (Ezra Pound) 154
— To Dante (Percy Bysshe Shelley) 154
— Ballata (Hubert Creekmore) 155
Cecco Angiolieri — Sonnet (D. G. Rossetti) 156
Dante Alighieri — Canzone (D. G. Rossetti) 157
— Sonnet (D. G. Rossetti) 159
— To Guido Cavalcanti (Percy Bysshe Shelley) 160
— Canzone (D. G. Rossetti) 160
— The Banquet: Dissertation 2, Canzone 1 (Howard Nemerov) 163
— All Ye That Pass (D. G. Rossetti) 165
— Sonnet to the Lady Pietra (D. G. Rossetti) 166
Cino da Pistoia — Desperate (L. R. Lind) 166
Folgore da San Geminiano — March (D. G. Rossetti) 167
— May (D. G. Rossetti) 167
Francesco Petrarch — Against the Court of Rome (Sir Thomas Wyatt) 168
— Canzone (Morris Bishop) 169
— Complaint of a Lover Rebuked (Earl of Surrey) 172
— The Nightingale (Thomas LeMesurier) 172
Giovanni Boccaccio — Apology For Love (John Dryden) 172
Sonnet (T. G. Bergin) 174
WELSH - NOTE 175
Aneirin — Of Manly Disposition (D. S. Evans) 177
— The Lost Legion (D. S. Evans) 178
Taliesin — Dialogue Between Poet and Patron (D. S. Evans) 179
Anonymous — For Little Dinogad (H. Idris Bell) 180
Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd — A Love Poem (H. Idris Bell) 181
Gruffudd ab yr Ynad Coch — The Death of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (Gwyn Williams) 182
Dafydd ap Gwilym — To the Nun (H. Idris Bell) 185
— A Snowy Day (H. Idris Bell) 186
— The Seagull (David Bell) 188
— He Desires Her Husband’s Death (David Bell) 189
Lewis Glyn Cothi — On the Death of His Son (Gwyn Williams) 190
IRISH - NOTE 193
Anonymous — In Praise of Aed (Robin Flower) 195
— Four Short Poems (Owen Masters) 196
— Summer is Gone (Sean O’Faolain) 197
— Pangur Ban (Robin Flower) 198
— Fand Yields Cuchulain to Emer (Sean O’Faolain) 199
— May (Frank O’Connor) 200
— Man and Bird and God (Owen Masters) 201
— A Storm at Sea (Robin Flower) 202
— Good Old Finn (Owen Masters) 204
— Crazy Sweeney’s Song of the Woods (Owen Masters) 204
Donnachadh mor O’Dala — At Saint Patrick’s Purgatory (Sean O’Faolain) 209
OLD NORSE — NOTE 211
Anonymous — The Beginning and the End (Henry Adams Bellows) 212
Cormac Ogmundarson — Three Songs to Steingerd (W. G. Collingwood and Jon Stefansson) 219
Eyvindr Finsson — Death Song of Haakon the Good (O. L. Oliver) 220
DANISH — NOTE 223
Anonymous Ballads — The Elected Knight (H. W. Longfellow) 224
The Avenging Daughters (E. M. Smith-Dampier) 226
— The Maiden Hind (E. M. Smith-Dampier) 227
— Aager and Eliza (Anonymous Translator) 229
DUTCH — NOTE 233
Hadewijch — The Eighteenth Song (A. J. Barnouw) 234
— The Nineteenth Song (A. J. Barnouw) 235
GERMAN — NOTE 239
Anonymous — Reward of Service (F. C. Nicholson) 240
Dietmar von Aist — The Linden Tree (Edgar Taylor) 241
— Dawn Song (O. L. Oliver) 242
The Knight of Kürenberg — The Falcon (Margarete Münsterberg) 243
— Star (Margaret R. Richey) 243
Friedrich von Hausen — Civil War (F. C. Nicholson) 244
Hartmann von Aue — The Scales of Love (Jethro Bithell) 245
Heinrich von Morungen — Two Remember Dawn (Margaret R. Richey) 246
— Song (Edgar Taylor) 248
— Dream and Image (Jethro Bithell) 249
Reinmar von Hagenau — Deduction (Margaret R. Richey) 250
— A Meadow and My Lady (F. C. Nicholson) 250
Wolfram von Eschenbach — Hope for Miracles (Jethro Bithell) 252
Walther von der Vogelweide — Blessed Be the Hour (Margarete Münsterberg) 253
— The Oracle (Margarete Münsterberg) 254
— For One of Low Degree (Margaret R. Richey) 255
— Under the Linden (O. L. Oliver) 256
Reinmar von Sweter — Fortitude (Jethro Bithell) 257
Neidhart von Reuenthal — On the Mountain (Jethro Bithell) 258
Anonymous — Westphalian Song (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) 258
ANGLO-SAXON AND MIDDLE ENGLISH — NOTE 259
Anonymous — The Wife’s Lament (Charles W. Kennedy) 260
— The Seafarer (Ezra Pound) 262
— The Grave (Charles W. Kennedy) 265
— Summer 266
Robert Mannyng of Brunne—Woman’s Love 267
Anonymous — Spring Song 267
— Song of Ploughing 269
— Adam Lay Bound 270
— The Lytyll Prety Nyghtyngale 271
Geoffrey Chaucer — Ballade: Hyde, Absalon 272
— Rondel: Now Welcome, Somer 273
— The Complaint Unto Pity 274
The Bill of Complaint 276
Anonymous — Song 278
