"The Song of Roland" is acknowledged today as the first masterpiece of French vernacular literature and one of the world's greatest epic poems. Newth's new verse translation--the first in English for more than 50 years to preserve the full poetic diction of the medieval composition--recaptures the form, feel, and flow of the original work in performance by restoring the genre's "verbal music."
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"The Song of Roland" is acknowledged today as the first masterpiece of French vernacular literature and one of the world's greatest epic poems. Newth's new verse translation--the first in English for more than 50 years to preserve the full poetic diction of the medieval composition--recaptures the form, feel, and flow of the original work in performance by restoring the genre's "verbal music."
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