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Eustache Deschamps : selected poems / edited by Ian S. Laurie and Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi ; translated by David Curzon and Jeffrey Fiskin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Deschamps, Eustache, 1346?-1406.
- Series:
- Routledge medieval texts
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- French, Old (ca. 842-1300)
- Subjects (All):
- Deschamps, Eustache, 1346?-1406--Translations into English.
- Deschamps, Eustache.
- Deschamps, Eustache--Translations into English.
- Deschamps, Eustache, 1346?-1406.
- Local Subjects:
- Deschamps, Eustache--Translations into English.
- Physical Description:
- x, 253 pages ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Selected poems
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : Routledge, 2003.
- Summary:
- Eustache Deschamps, a prolific courtier-poet in the fourteenth century, is one of the best-kept secrets of medieval French literature. His work charmed many well-known writers of the time, including Guillaume de Machaut, Christine de Pizan, Jean Froissart, and Chaucer, and no writer gives us a more dynamic picture of life in medieval France. At last, Deschamps's most appealing short poems are collected here for the first time in English translation. This unprecedented collection presents more than seventy poems in elegant, dual-language translations, based on the fifteenth-century manuscript source at the French National Library. Rendered into English verse with great skill and care by David Curzon and Jeffrey Fiskin, Deschamps's verse sings in English with its original esprit. As revealed in these pages, Deschamps proves to be one of the most colorful satirists and comics of the Middle Ages. His witty perceptions of society offer intriguing commentary on most aspects of daily life, from women's underwear to gluttonous diners, from the delights of youth to the horrors and buffoonery of war. He also gives us a vivid impression of what it was like to be alive in the turbulent fourteenth century, the age of the Black Death, the Hundred Years' War, and the Papal Schism, all the while maintaining a refreshing skepticism and wry sense of humor. With an extensive critical introduction, notes, and bibliography by editors Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi and Ian S. Laurie, this volume offers scholars and poetry lovers alike a fascinating glimpse into the medieval world.
- Contents:
- Life 1
- Artistic Achievement 20
- Influence 24
- Selection Principles 26
- Editorial Policy for the Texts and Translations 26
- Deschamps's Metrical Forms 27
- Rondeau 28
- Virelai 29
- Balade 29
- Chanson Royale 30
- Rhyme 30
- Deschamps's Language 32
- Performance 34
- The Presentation of the Poems 38
- The Poems 53.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-239) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0415942438
- OCLC:
- 50477244
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