Pastourelle
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The pastourelle (French: pastoral poetry by having a shepherd and sometimes a love quarrel. The form originated with the troubadour poets of the 12th century and particularly with the poet Marcabru (pastorela).
This troubadour form melded with
Faerie Queene. Child's ballads gives an example in The Baffled Knight
.
Sources
- Paden, William D. "Pastourelle" in Alex Preminger and T. V. F. Brogan, eds., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1993. p. 888.
References
- ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5.