The Oxford Book of French Verse

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Excerpt from The Oxford Book of French Verse: Xiiith Century-Xixth CenturyWhen exactl the poetry of the troubadours first be an pro 1 was about the time w en e Lyon was lying in a German prison and Bertran de Born riding to battle at the head of the lords of Aquitaine. The Courts of the North were visited by the troubadours, those of Eleanor of Poitiers, wife of our Henry II, and of her daughter Marie of Champagne, became famous for their refinement, and early in the thirteenth century the singers of Champagne and Picardy began to use the most characteristic forms of Provencal verse: the tenfon, an argument between two poets, the alba and the screw, sung at dawn and at evening beneath the window of the beloved, and the ebamon, a form governed by highly complicated rules. Chrétien de Troics, Tibaut de Cham pagne, Gace Brulé, conbfi'firbéthupe, - these are some of the writers whose songs keep for us a faint fragrance of those far-off, passionate days, and are relics of the early sweetness that Pater found in Jacam'a at N icolele.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.