Sinopsis
Experience the oldest and finest of the Romance Epics in a new English verse translation. This edition illuminates the poem’s power, scope, and timeless themes for today’s readers.
This volume collects a landmark medieval epic and pairs it with an insightful introduction by Leonard Bacon. It situates the poem within its feudal frame, explains its enduring appeal, and examines how loyalty, courage, and national identity are celebrated in verse. The book presents the tale as a glorious, mostly heroic narrative, while inviting readers to consider its ideas about duty, justice, and leadership. The text follows Charlemagne’s campaign in Spain, the famous rear‑guard battle, and the high drama of personal and collective courage. Readers will encounter memorable figures, epic combat, and a vivid portrayal of medieval chivalry and faith.
- A vivid, action‑driven epic told in accessible English verse
- An introduction that explains the poem’s origins, its feudal ideals, and its cultural impact
- Rich depictions of battle, heroism, and the code of knighthood
- Discussion of authorship questions and the poem’s place in medieval literary history
Ideal for fans of classic epic poetry and readers curious about the roots of French literary tradition and the heroic ideal.
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Excerpt from The Song of Roland: Translated Into English Verse
When the importance of this idea is fully realized it will perhaps appear more clearly that the Song of Roland is some thing more than a striking story. Consecrating the pursuit of the feudal ideal as it did, it must have become an ethical force of a positive type. Who can say what France may not have owed in her stormy formative years to a poem which so triumphantly celebrated that loyalty and sense of national unity of which the country stood in such bitter need? Is it too fanciful to imagine that the Song of Roland received, nursed, and disseminated the spirit whose purest exponent was to be Joan of Arc? At all events France owes to her first and greatest epic the earliest example of that patriotism, that fine tendency to act as an undivided nation, which has made her a spiritual leader of the races of men.
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An apology for a new translation of the Song of Roland is perhaps not unnecessary. Several excellent versions in prose and verse already exist. It was with no view to supplanting them that the present volume was undertaken. But the writer feels certain that a work like the Song of Roland is susceptible of many interpretations. Hence he has not hesitated to attempt one of his own. It is proper to indicate certain interpolations and certain deviations from the Oxford text on which the present version is based. Laisses CXIIa, CXlIb, CXIVa, CXlVb, CXIVc, CXXVa, CXXVllla, CXXVIIlb, CXXVIIlc, CXXVIIld, C4LIVa, CLIVa, are supplied from other sources than the basic text, with a view to filling up certain lacunre in the narrative. Other interpolations and deviations; are indicated in the notes. It would be impossible. to enumerate the various kindnesses shown me by others in carrying ·out this little adventure. I take great pleasure in acknowledgi
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