I cannot think that, if and when Hilarius managed to get his work performed, he would still have been a
goliard. The resources demanded for this considerable dramatic production ...
The latter occurred frequently in the works of the so-called
Goliard poets of the twelfth century in their mantle-begging verses, and parodies of the Charity-action can be found in Reynard the Fox, in Villon, and elsewhere.
Their assignments included researching and cooking the meal from authentic medieval recipes, reciting troubadour or
Goliard student poetry, performing a medieval play written by a tenth-century nun, juggling, or performing medieval music.
Much as I dislike saying no to yours of October 11 asking me, I am sure in all kindness, to reconsider "A" 13-21 for Cape
Goliard imprint, let us please leave it as the contract now filed here has it--for Cape.
In this, the third of his series dealing with the medieval secular Latin lyric, Bryan Gillingham addresses various problems, including the meaning and etymology of the word "
goliard" and the social milieu of the authors of the repertory we call "goliardic." (I shall use these terms henceforth on the understanding that they designate the kind of repertory seen in the Carmina Burana, where sacred and distinctly secular compositions are mingled.)
Around the so-called
Goliard poets John Addington Symonds romantically constructed figures exuberantly devoted to wine, women, and song.
Whicher, The
Goliard Poets, 87, reproduces the words of the Latin original, while K.
The early edition of the Maximus Poems IV, V, VI published by Cape
Goliard was crucial.
Other critics, however, attribute his subject matter and attitude to the medieval European
goliard tradition, whose followers were writers of ribald and disrespectful verse.
Iron Horse (The Coach House Press, 1972), Scrap Leaves (Poet's Press, no date, signed), Wales Visitation (Cape
Goliard Press, 1968), Bixby Canyon Ocean Path Word Breeze (Gotham Book Mart, 1972), T.