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Wine Women and Song - Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse - cover

Wine Women and Song - Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse

Anonymous

Translator John Addington Symonds

Publisher: Good Press

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Summary

'Wine, Women, and Song' is a collection of writings by John Addington Symonds. It includes a series of short essays that eventually culminated into several ballads. Symonds was an English poet and literary critic. A cultural historian, he was known for his work on the Renaissance, as well as numerous biographies of writers and artists.

Available since: 03/16/2020.

Print length: 191 pages.

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