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"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
- Logan Pearsall Smith
(1865 - 1946)
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ZIN Product Number: 10269298
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 Format: Hardcover, 184 pages
Publisher: National Geographic Society
ISBN: 0792265386
Release Date: Jan 6, 1998
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W.S. Merwin, one of the great contemporary English-language poets, turns to prose here in a brilliantly evocative re-creation of a distant past—as well as an exquisite rendering of his own romance with an abandoned farmhouse in the magical countryside of Southwest France. The Mays of Ventadorn: Tales from Southwest France illuminates the origins of the famous 12th-century Provencal troubadours, beginning with the great Bernart de Ventadorn whose work Merwin first encountered as a young translator of the archaic language known as Old Occitan. The timeless beauty of the troubadours’ pastoral songs and narrative poems has enabled them to survive for 900 years, far outlasting the language from which they sprang.
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