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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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JAMES INGRAM
reviewed The Mays of Ventadorn on August 28, 2008 The Mays of Ventadorn
This is a beautiful prose book by my favorite poet, W.S. Merwin. It's a lyrical little book about the south of France, where Merwin sometimes lives, but it bounces back and forth in time to take into account the age of the troubadours as well as the more contemporary landscape. Merwin has an amazing feel for the region, and his love for it and for the medieval poets is obvious on every page. After you finish with this the poetry is well worthwhile too. And I've met Merwin, he's just as nice a person as you'd suppose, he personally answers letters, and he's an active environmentalist. How much better a person can you be?
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