{"product_id":"proensa-paul-blackburn-9781681370309","title":"Proensa: An Anthology of Troubadour Poetry","description":"It was out of medieval Provence--Proensa--that the ethos of courtly love emerged, and it was in the poetry of the Proven al troubadours that it found its perfect expression. Their poetry was also a central inspiration for Dante and his Italian contemporaries, propagators of the modern vernacular lyric, and seven centuries later it was no less important to the modernist Ezra Pound. These poems, a source to which poetry has returned again and again in search of renewal, are subtle, startling, earthy, erotic, and supremely musical. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poet Paul Blackburn studied and translated the troubadours for twenty years, and the result of that long commitment is \u003ci\u003eProensa\u003c\/i\u003e, an anthology of thirty poets of the eleventh through thirteenth centuries, which has since established itself not only as a powerful and faithful work of translation but as a work of poetry in its own right. Blackburn's \u003ci\u003eProensa\u003c\/i\u003e, George Economou writes, \"will take its place among Gavin Douglas' \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e, Golding's \u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/i\u003e, the Homer of Chapman, Pope, and Lattimore, Waley's Japanese, and Pound's Chinese, Italian, and Old English.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Blackburn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1681370301\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681370309\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/10\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d","brand":"Paul Blackburn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43991786586367,"sku":"9781681370309","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6390f20c-87f7-4b40-b803-609341e1359e.jpg?v=1683312229","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/proensa-paul-blackburn-9781681370309","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}