1st Edition
Walther von der Vogelweide The Single-Stanza Lyrics
Edited By Frederick Goldin
Copyright 2003
368 Pages
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Routledge
524 Pages
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Routledge
Walther von der Vogelweide was the greatest German lyric poet of the Middle Ages. He created and performed songs for the noblest courts of the Holy Roman Empire. Though every German-speaking school-child can recite some of Walther's lines, his has languished in obscurity in the English-speaking world, largely because it has been available until now only in scattered and poorly annotated... Read more
Introduction 1. Waltherus Cantor 2. Walther's Life and Times 3. The Witness in Courtly Romance 4. Walther's Performance 5. Translating Walther 6. Editing Walther 7. Meter and Form Texts and Translations Commentary Lists of Works Cited
Biography
Frederick Goldin
