Poetry took numerous forms in medieval Europe, for example, lyric and epic poetry. The troubadours, trouvères, and the minnesänger are known for composing...
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Medieval debate poetry was a genre of poems popular in England and France during the late medieval period. The same type of debate poems broadly existed...
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Johnston, Dafydd, ed. (1998). Canu maswedd yr oesoedd canol (Medieval Welsh erotic poetry). Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr [Bridgend]: Seren. ISBN 1-85411-234-1. Jenkins...
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Spanish literature Medieval Welsh literature Medieval poetry Medieval drama Medieval allegory Medieval mysticism Fabliau Medieval travel literature Arthurian...
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Poetry as an oral art form likely predates written text. The earliest poetry is believed to have been recited or sung, employed as a way of remembering...
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Ubi sunt (section Medieval poetry)
subdued, It knows not how to atone: thus it goes to damnation.' In medieval Persian poetry, ubi sunt is a pervasive theme in The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:...
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of much medieval, Renaissance, Romantic, and modern lyric poetry, but these works were composed in elegiac couplets and so were not lyric poetry in the...
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implied cosmology with that of Tolkien's religion, Catholicism, and of medieval poetry such as Pearl or Dante's Paradiso, where there are three parts, Earth...
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This article concerns poetry in Spain. The Medieval period covers 400 years of different poetry texts and can be broken up into five categories. Since...
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Gnomic poetry consists of meaningful sayings put into verse to aid the memory. They were known by the Greeks as gnomes (c.f. the Greek adjective γνωμικός...
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