Oton de Granson, Poems

Oton de Granson, slain in a duel in 1397, was a knight, diplomat, and poet, who lived an active, almost storybook life at or near the center of many of the most important events in the last half of the fourteenth century. He was almost certainly a personal friend to both Chaucer and Eustache Deschamps and among the first and most successful of the poets who were also courtiers. This new translation makes Granson's poetry available again to English readers.



Peter Nicholson is Professor of English at University of Hawai'i, focusing most recently on Gower, but also Chaucer and medieval literature more broadly. Joan Grenier-Winther is Professor of French Language and Culture at Washington State University, Vancouver, where she focuses on lyric poetry of medieval French knights of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.



Acknowledgments Introduction List of Manuscripts and Abbreviations Poems Rondels [Rondeaux] Vyrelay [Virelai] Balades [Ballades] Other Works Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Concordance to Grenier-Winther's Edition Le Livre Messire Ode: Concordance to Piaget's Edition Index of First Lines Index of Titles Bibliography