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Medieval rhetoric and poetic to 1400 : $b Interpreted from representative works
Baldwin, Charles Sears
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism; Poetics -- History -- To 1500; Rhetoric, Medieval
[5] Edited for the Camden Society by Thomas Wright, London, 1850;
reëdited by Montague Rhodes James in Anecdota Oxoniensia, Oxford, 1914;
translated and edited by James, Lloyd, and Hartland, London, 1923; by
Tupper and Ogle, London, 1924. See Hinton in _Studies in Philology_, 20:
448 (Oct., 1923).
[6] See the _exemplum_ quoted above, page 246.
[7] References are to the books and _distinctiones_ into which the
collection was grouped by some compiler, evidently not by Walter himself.
[8] The charm of Marie’s _lais_ as poetry is suggested by the metrical
versions of F. B. Luquiens, New York, 1911, which has a bibliography and
a valuable introduction. There are several prose translations.
[9] The appendix of adventures in _Aucassin et Nicolete_ seems to be
a later addition, not part of the original composition. Among the
translations, Andrew Lang’s keeps its distinction.
[10] Translation by Alice Kemp-Welch, London, 1903, with the French text.
[11] Prose translation of _Erec_, _Cligés_, _Yvain_, and _Lancelot_ by
W. W. Comfort, Everyman’s Library, 1914, with introduction, notes, and
bibliography. The fourteenth-century English translation of _Yvain_
(_Ywain and Gawain_) has been edited by G. Schleich with study of its
relation to the original, Oppeln and Leipzig, 1887.
[12] Lady Charlotte Guest, _The Mabinogion_ (1877), 162.
[13] See note 52 to Chapter VII, and Lizette A. Fisher, _The Mystic
vision in the Grail legend and in the Divine Comedy_, New York, 1917
(Columbia University Press).
[14] Book II of Dante’s unfinished _De vulgari eloquentia_ has several
passages suggestive of the preoccupations of his time and of his own
bent: “Si poesim recte consideremus: quæ nihil aliud est quam fictio
rethorica musicaque composita” (III, page 393 of the Oxford 1 vol.
text of the Works); “magister noster Horatius” (_ibid._); “grandiosa
modo vocabula sub prælato stilo digna consistere....” (VII. 395);
“ornativa vero dicimus omnia polysyllaba....” (VII. 396); “tota igitur
ars cantionis circa tria videtur consistere: ... cantus divisionem ...
partium habitudinem ... numerum carminum et syllabarum” (IX. 397).
For the three styles, see the indexes to ARP and to this volume.
[15] The references are to book, canto, and line. I refers to _Inferno_;
II, to _Purgatorio_; III, to _Paradiso_. The translations are adapted
from the convenient and familiar edition in Temple Classics.
[16] Tanto vilmente nel eterno esilio. I. xxiii. 125.
La concreata e perpetua sete. III. ii. 19.
E la sua volontate è nostra pace. III. iii. 85.
Non fu dal vel del cor giammai disciolta. III. iii. 117.
[17] See ARP, 128.
[18] See the introduction to Cook’s edition, Boston, 1900.
[19] See above, page 240.
[20] For ecphrasis, see the index.
[21] For the demonstration of this see Gratia Eaton Baldwin, _The new
Beatrice, or the virtue that counsels_, New York, Columbia University
Press, 1928.
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