Taylor, Edgar [Editor]; Austin, Sarah [Editor]: Lays of the minnesingers or German troubadours of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries: Illustr. by specimens of the contemporary lyric poetry of Provence and other parts of Europe ; With histor. and crit. notes, and engravings from the ms. of the minnesingers in the king's library at Paris, and from other sources (London, 1825)

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courts and people ; that its poets principally devoted
themselves to works more calculated to ensure popu-
larity ; and that the productions of its less fortunate
rival fell into unmerited neglect. The real extent of
Provencal genius and literature is likely to remain
for ever buried in oblivion, unless the researches of
Spanish critics,—among whom, especially in Arragon,
a great mass of Troubadour poetry appears to have
been mouldering unnoticed,—shall restore the trea-
sures that are known to be still in existence in that
land which saw so much of their ancient glory,