trouvère

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He is a poet in the primitive sense of the word, or, as he styled himself in one of his books, a "trouvère."

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

We seldom know the name of the trouvère by whom these anecdotes were versified.

From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Botta, Anne C. Lynch

The chansons had a common form, or something very like it, which almost dispensed the trouvère from devoting much pains to the individual conduct of the story.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George

As an old trouvère says: "The lover does not leave his beloved but with the sanction of his soul."

From Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Cannan, Gilbert

To such a society the strongly realistic Carolingian epic had ceased to appeal: the tales of the Welsh and Breton bards, repeated by trouvère and jongleur, troubadour and minnesinger, came as a revelation.

From Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II by Lee, Vernon