Mediaeval Latin LyricsThis selection traces the development of the medieval Latin lyric from its source in the first century A.D. to its full flowering in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The wandering scholars, or vagantes, who flourished in the later Middle Ages, left behind them a splendid harvest of poetry, including the most famous anthology of medieval lyric, the "Carmina Burana". These poems of love and wine, of life and death, were written not to be read, but to be sung; in her translation, which is set alongside the Latin, Helen Waddell succeeds in capturing the rhythmic vitality and youthful flavour of the original. |
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Abbot Alcuin amor amoris Andecavis Angilbert Archpoet atque Ausonius Bacchus birds Bishop Carm Carmina Burana century Charlemagne Christ Colum Cille Cuckoo cuculus cunctis death deus dulce dulcis Dümmler Dying of desire earth ecce Eia eia Eia laudes felix flores flowers Fortunatus Grimold haec hath heart heaven Hiems hinc Hrabanus Hrabanus Maurus illa Kuno Meyer Latin Lord Love's lyric maid Afire Martial of Limoges mediaeval mihi modo Monte Cassino night nobis nunc omne omnia pariter Paul the Deacon Paulinus Paulinus of Nola poems poets prata precor quae quam quia quid quis quod quoque rerum rosa rose scholar Sedulius Sedulius Scottus semper silva sing sleep song sorrow soul spring sunt sweet tamen thee things thou tibi Veneris Venus verses vinum Virgil vita Walafrid Strabo wind wine written wrote