Ezra Pound and the Troubadour Tradition

ISBN: 9780691619361 出版年：2015 页码：172 McDougal, Stuart Y Princeton University Press

The world of the troubadours of medieval provence--of bertran de born, arnaut de mareuil, and peire bremon lo tort--always fascinated ezra pound and, as stuart mcdougal shows, provided both themes and techniques for his early poetry. Pound's first translations of provencal poetry were a way of penetrating an alien sensibility and culture and making it his own; they were also important technical exercises. Confronted with the problem of finding a suitable form and language for the provencal experience, he condensed, deleted, expanded--the results were highly original works. Among pound's early experiments were the studies of individual provencal poets, each representing one of the qualities of provencal culture that attracted him--bertran is the man of action and vidal is an example of the close connection between man and the "vital universe.