{"product_id":"the-art-of-making-verses-9780674290969","title":"The Art of Making Verses","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn elegant medieval guide to verse composition and rhetoric, presented in a new authoritative edition and English translation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Art of Making Verses, Ars versificatoria, \u003c\/i\u003e was composed by the thirteenth-century English poet and teacher Gervase of Melkley, who studied under John de Hauville. He belongs to a select company of French and English scholastic poets including not only de Hauville but also Alan of Lille and Bernardus Silvestris. The educational treatise was probably begun around 1200 and completed in 1220. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGervase departs from established critical texts on poetry by Matthew of Vend?me and Geoffrey of Vinsauf; instead, he seeks to teach the art of verse in an entirely new way. The method outlined in \u003ci\u003eArs versificatoria\u003c\/i\u003e instructs elementary students how to compose in three progressively more difficult modes: literal but still artful language, metaphor, and irony or paradox. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition presents a new and improved Latin edition based on the manuscripts, a new translation into English, and thorough annotation of the most original of the medieval Latin treatises on poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLawler, Traugott:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Traugott Lawler is Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University.","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51298472460562,"sku":"9780674290969","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fcc639ae-53da-4c9f-b9c3-71e1bde874b2.jpg?v=1747822329","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-art-of-making-verses-9780674290969","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}