Ezra Pound and the Troubadour Tradition

The world of the troubadours of medieval Provence--of Bertran de Born, Arnaut de Mareuil, and Peire Bremon lo Tort--always fascinated Ezra Pound and, as Stuart McDougal shows, provided both themes and techniques for his early poetry. Pound's first translations of Provencal poetry were a way of penetrating an alien sensibility and culture and makin