Excerpt from The Literary Relationships of Dafydd Ap GwilymThe modern lyric poetry of Europe is the creation of the early Renaissance of the twelfth century, and the cradle of that lyric poetry was Provence. As Hallam long ago pointed out, the songs of Provence became the source from which poetry for many centuries derived a great portion of its habitual language. But there were other forces at work besides the in¿uence of the Troubadours of Provence which made for the growth of lyric, or lighter.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.