Parisiana poetria

Author(s)

• John, of Garland, approximatelyapproximately 1272
• Lawler, Traugott

Bibliographic Information

Parisiana poetria

John of Garland ; edited and translated by Traugott Lawler

（Dumbarton Oaks medieval library, 65）

Harvard University Press, 2020

• :cloth

Note

Revision of Traugott Lawler's "The Parisiana poetria of John of Garland" (New Haven, 1974)

Originally presented as Traugott Lawler's Harvard Ph.D thesis

Summary: "John of Garland makes a number of very important contributions to our understanding of medieval literature. His Parisiana poetria offers few individual precepts that are new. Its originality lies rather in its totality: it is the only thorough attempt we have to gather three distinct areas of the medieval arts of discourse (ars poetica, ars rhythmica, and ars dictaminis) under a single series of rules. The work is surely derivative, and yet John's experience both as a teacher and as a writer of poetry is everywhere evident and lends the book an original flavor. It is a summary for students of contemporary thinking, as filtered through John's experience of teaching, on how to learn to write: not a new departure, though something of a new synthesis, in literary criticism"-- Provided by publisher

Latin with English translation following; introduction and notes in English

Includes bibliographical references (p. 497-498) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The Parisiana poetria, first published around 1220, expounds the medieval theory of poetry (ars poetica) and summarizes early thirteenth-century thought about writing. While the text draws on predecessors such as the Rhetorica ad Herennium, Horace’s Ars poetica, and work by Geoffrey of Vinsauf, its style and content reveal the unique experience of its author, John of Garland, a prominent teacher of the language arts at the University of Paris. John was also a well-read poet with broad tastes, and his passion for poetry, as well as for fine prose composition, is on display throughout the Parisiana poetria. This treatise is the only thoroughgoing attempt to unite three distinct arts—quantitative poetry, rhythmic poetry, and prose composition, especially of letters—under a single set of rules. The sections on low, middle, and high style, illustrated by his “Wheel of Virgil,” have attracted wide attention; and his long account of rhymed poetry is the most complete that has survived. This volume presents the most authoritative edition of the Latin text alongside a fresh English translation.

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Details

• NCID: BC00975847
• ISBN:
  • 9780674238152
• LCCN: 2020014671
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: englat
• Original Language Code: lat
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xxii, 503 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 870.9/003
  • LCC : PA2875
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Rhetoric, Medieval -- Early works to 1800
  • LCSH : Latin poetry, Medieval and modern -- Early works to 1800
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB04046591