The Alexandreis of Walter of Châtillon : a twelfth-century epic : a verse translation /
David Townsend's translation - the first ever into English verse - affords modern readers a vivid sense of the aesthetic appeal and sophisticated artistry of Walter's poem. A concise introduction sets out the poem's background and significance in literary history, while also suggestin...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English Latin |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press
©1996.
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| Series: | Middle Ages series.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt18crxvp |
| Summary: | David Townsend's translation - the first ever into English verse - affords modern readers a vivid sense of the aesthetic appeal and sophisticated artistry of Walter's poem. A concise introduction sets out the poem's background and significance in literary history, while also suggesting how Walter's text resonates with the literary sensibilities of our own times. Townsend's explanatory notes, adapted in large part from glosses in the surviving manuscripts, allow modern audiences a remarkable glimpse into the ways in which medieval readers of the Alexandreis must have understood the poem. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxix, 214 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvii-xxix) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585172943 9780585172941 1512809470 9781512809473 0812233476 9780812233476 |