The Lais of Marie de France by Marie de France (trans. by Burgess/Busby) [Penguin Classics]
Requirements: any epub reader, 0.5MB
Overview: Translated (1986,1999) by Glyn S. Burgess and Keith Busby
Second Edition (1999) with two further lais in the original Old French
Marie de France (late 12th Century) is the earliest known French woman poet. She is principally known for her authorship of The Lais of Marie de France, a collection of 12 poems, mostly of a few hundred lines each. The ‘lais’ are written in the Anglo-Norman and were probably composed in the late 12th century. The short, narrative poems generally focus on glorifying the concept of courtly love by the adventures of their main characters.
This edition (1999) includes both an updated and expanded Bibliography and two new lays in the Old French original, Lanval and Chevrefoil (edited here by Burgess). The lais are translated into prose, which loses the sense of Marie’s rhyming octosyllables or eight-syllable verse.
To gain a sense of the octosyllabic verse in English translation, see here: http://users.clas.ufl.edu/jshoaf/Marie/
Genre: Poetry
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