Dedicated to Robert Louis Stevenson, Symonds’s book corrects the picture of a gloomy Middle Ages by translating the songs of the wandering scholars. An introductory essay on the Goliards and the Carmina Burana tradition is followed by lively English versions of their poems on spring and love, dancing girls, the tavern and the scholar’s carefree life.
A delightful gateway to the secular lyrics behind Carmina Burana. Download the free EPUB.