Marie de France: Poetry (First Edition)(Norton Critical Editions)

Marie de Frances beautiful poems of courtly love, enchantment, and mystery are now available in a Norton Critical Edition. Winner of the 2016 Northern California Book Award for Translation of Poetry. Honorable Mention for the 2015 Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize For Translation of a Literary Work. Marie de France was a medieval poet who was probably born in France and who lived in England during the twelfth century. Prominent among the earliest poets writing in the French vernacular, Marie de France helped shape the style and genres of later medieval poetry. This Norton Critical Edition includes all of Marieslais (short narrative verse poems); selected fables; and a generous excerpt from Saint Patricks Purgatory, a long poem based on a well-known medieval legend. Each text is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. For comparative reading, two lais, Bisclavret and Ynec, are accompanied by Maries facing-page originals.Additional ISBNs: 9780393932683, 0393932680, 9780393523133, 0393523136