文档介绍：Song and Legend From the Middle Ages
by William D. McClintock and Porter Lander McClintock
CONTENTS.
I. FRENCH LITERATURE
II. SPANISH LITERATURE
III. SCANDINAVIAN LITERATURE
IV. GERMAN LITERATURE
V. ITALIAN LITERATURE
READING LIST.
Owing to the necessarily fragmentary character of the readings of
this volume, it has seemed well to the editors to indicate a list
of books for those who wish a wider reading In Mediaeval
Literature. These books are all available and cheap.
French Literature.
(1) Longfellow's "Poets and Poetry of Europe".
(2) O'Hagan's "The Song of Roland".
(3) Rourdillon's "Aucassin and Nicolette".
(4) Malory's "Morte Darthur".
(5) Chaucer's "Romance of the Rose".
(6) Caxton's "Reynard the Fox".
(7) Saintsbury's "Short History of French Literature".
Spanish Literature.
(1) Longfellow, as above.
(2) Ormsby's "The Cid".
(3) Lockhart's "Ancient Spanish Ballads".
Scandinavian Literature.
(1) Longfellow, as above.
(2) Anderson's "Norse Mythology".
German Literature.
(1) Longfellow, as above.
(2) Lettsom's "Niebelungenlied".
(3) Scherer's "History of German Literature".
Italian Literature.
(1) Longfellow, as above.
(2) Rossetti's "Dante and his Circle".
(3) Cary's "The edy".
(4) Norton's "The edy".
(5) Campbell's "The s and Poems of Petrarch".
PREFACE.
The aim of this little book is to give general readers some idea of the subject and spirit of European Continental literature in the later and culminating period of the Middle Ages--the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries.
It goes without saying that translations and selections are, in general, inadequate to the satisfactory representation of any literature. No piece of writing, of course, especially no piece of poetry, can be perfectly rendered into another tongue; no piece of writing can be fairly represented by detached portions. But to the general English reader Continental Mediaeval liteature, so long as it remains in the original tongues, is essible; and tra