The Savoyard knight, diplomat, and poet Oton de Granson was among the first and most successful of the late fourteenth century's courtier poets. Well-known in both the French and English courts, he spent much of his career in service to the English king and also was likely a personal friend to poets Geoffrey Chaucer and Eustache Deschamps, with Chaucer's "Complaint of Venus" praising Granson as the flower of French poetry. Though his contributions to medieval French lyric poetry enjoyed little recognition in his lifetime, he is partly credited with popularizing poetic forms that became popular after his death and was later celebrated alongside—and his works sometimes misattributed to—luminary poets such as Eustache Deschamps, Guillaume de Machaut, and Alain Chartier. This new edition of Granson's works presents them in his original Middle French verse accompanied by modern English translations, a detailed scholarly introduction, and extensive explanatory and textual notes.



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