Mediæval Latin Lyrics
By: [compiled and translated by] Helen Waddell ; with an introduction by John Scattergood.
Contributors: Scattergood, V. J.
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Portland, OR
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781846821066
Subjects: Latin poetry, Medieval and modern -- Translations into English; Latin poetry, Medieval and modern
Genres: Translations into English
Description: "Writing excitedly to her sister Meg in 1929, Helen Waddell quotes an early review of Mediaeval Latin Lyrics: 'Miss Waddell has kept her promise well: she promised a volume of translations from those fascinating "vagantes". Some indeed are among the loveliest in any literature; and Miss Waddell has not dulled their brightness. She has come to them not merely with scholarship and literary tact, but with a soul attuned to the thought and feeling and the very idiom of another day. She has the most important of the translator's qualifications - a perfect empathy with her material.'" "Through the marvellous empathy this reviewer unerringly describes, she unlocked some of the secrets and literary achievements of the Middle Ages for the scholar and the general reader alike. The vagantes, to whom the reviewer refers, are also the subject of her earlier book, The Wandering Scholars (1927) which similarly won golden opinions. These two books and her novel Peter Abelard (1933) made her the most famous medievalist of her generation." "And this was no passion fashion. Helen Waddell's books, particularly this one, have informed and inspired generations of medievalists. Mediaeval Latin Lyrics is an authoritative and delightful guide to a period of European civilization and literature, when Latin was still a vibrant means of communication throughout the western world."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Latin and English on opposite pages.