Guillaume de Machaut, the most important poet and musician of
fourteenth-century France, had considerable influence on subsequent
generations of writers in both France and England. With this
scholarly translation, Minnette Gaudet and Constance B. Hieatt made
his longneglected narrative poem, the Dit de l'alerion - a treatise
on love and falconry - available to students of medieval
literature. In the poem, Machaut defines the problems and pleasures
of courtly love by comparing them to those of falconry, a sport
which modern readers know little about. The introduction and notes
to this edition provide valuable information about the art of
falconry, thus clarifying aspects of the poem which might be hard
to understand today. The scholarly notes and introduction furnish
explications and variant readings of obscure passages and comments
on wordplay. A running summary of the contents of the poem is also
provided in the margins.
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