well readers poems merits for volume edition introductory translations on authors from
Mediaeval
Latin
Lyrics
by
Helen
Waddell
Four
Courts
2008
Helen
Waddell's
classic
of
verse
from
Latin
has
been
inspiring
medievalists
85
years
.
The
anthologized
,
which
range
in
date
the
1st
to
the
13th
century
,
are
by
such
as
Boethius
,
Paulinus
of
Nola
,
Venantius
Fortunatus
and
Alcuin
,
as
as
anonymous
poets
from
the
Carmina
Burana
.
This
features
a
new
essay
by
John
Scattergood
the
translations'
and
their
reception
by
Waddell's
first
.