Song and Legend from the Middle Ages, by
by William Darnall MacClintock
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About this eBook
- Compiler
- MacClintock, Porter Lander, 1873-1939
- Title
- Song and Legend from the Middle Ages
- Credits
- Etext scanned by Dianne Bean of Phoenix, Arizona
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
- Subject
- Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 1893
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1893
- Release Date
- September 1, 1999
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.SONG AND LEGEND FROM THE MIDDLE AGES
- 2.CONTENTS. — PREFACE. — INTRODUCTION. — III. LYRICS. — SONG AND LEGEND FROM THE MIDDLE AGES. — ROMANCES. — FROM MORTE D'ARTHUR. — Book XIII. Chapter 6. — LATER FRENCH LYRICS. — RONDEL. — THE BALLADE OF DEAD LADIES. — LYRIC POETRY—PROVENCAL. — FABLES AND TALES. — THE PRIEST WHO ATE MULBERRIES. — TALES. — CHAPTER II. SPANISH LITERATURE. — ANCIENT BALLADS. — NON ES DE SESSUDOS HOMES. (ON THE FIELD). — LLORANDO DIEGO LAYNEZ. (THE TRIUMPH.) — THE YOUNG CID. — THE CID'S COURTSHIP. — BAVIECA. — FROM THE POEM OF THE CID. — THE BATTLE WITH KING BUCAR OF MOROCCO, AT VALENCIA. — CHAPTER III. SCANDINAVIAN LITERATURE. — VOLUSPA. THE ORACLE OF THE PROPHETESS VALA. — HAVAMAL. — VAFTHRUDNISMAL. THE SONG OF VAFTHRUDNER. — CHAPTER IV. GERMAN LITERATURE. — THE NATIONAL EPIC. — THE SONG OF HILDEBRAND. — ROMANCES. — THE MINNESINGERS. — FROM THE CRUSADERS' HYMN. — CHAPTER V. ITALIAN LITERATURE. — FROM THE VITA NUOVA. — III. — FROM THE DIVINE COMEDY.[1] — SONNET XIV. HE COMPARES HIMSELF TO A PILGRIM. — SONNET XCVIII. LEAVE-TAKING. — SESTINA VII. HE DESPAIRS OF ESCAPING FROM HIS TORMENTS. — SONNET XLII. THE SPRING ONLY RENEWS HIS GRIEF. — SONNET LII. HE REVISITS VAUCLUSE. — CANZONE III. UNDER VARIOUS ALLEGORIES HE PAINTS THE VIRTUE, BEAUTY, AND UNTIMELY DEATH OF LAURA. — SONNET LXXXV. HE CONFESSES AND REGRETS HIS SINS, AND PRAYS GOD TO SAVE HIM FROM ETERNAL DEATH. — SONNET XC. THE PLAINTIVE SONG OF A BIRD RECALLS HIS KEENER SORROW. — FROM THE DECAMERON. — THE POT OF BASIL.
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