{"product_id":"9781681370309","title":"Proensa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The poetry of the Provençal troubadours has had a profound influence on  the development of the lyric, from Dante and Petrarch to Ezra Pound and  the Black Mountain poets, despite the difficulty of Old Provençal, or  Occitan, the original language of the troubadours. The renewed interest  of the English-speaking world in troubadour poetry was initiated in the  early twentieth century by Pound's criticism and translations of the  troubadours. Yet no poet writing in English has done more forthis body  of work than the American poet and translator Paul Blackburn, who  devoted more than twenty years to the study and translation of occitan ancien. Proensa is the result of that long commitment, an anthology of thirty  troubadour poets of the eleventh through thirteenth centuries. It is a  dexterous and spirited work of translation, which, as George Economou  writes in his introduction, \"will take its place among Gavin Douglas' Aeneid, Golding's Metamorphoses, the Homer of Chapman, Pope, and Lattimore, Waley's Japanese, and Pound's Chinese, Italian, and Old English.\"\"--\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49641920528632,"sku":"EB_LI0500_E09-01_SYDNEY","price":45.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9781681370309-1.jpg?v=1783734152","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9781681370309","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}