trouvère

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Lastly, Walther von der Vogelweide appears to have been actually a "working poet," as we may say—a trouvère, who sang his own poems as he wandered about, and whose surname was purely a decorative one.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George

We seldom know the name of the trouvère by whom these anecdotes were versified.

From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Botta, Anne C. Lynch

He is a poet in the primitive sense of the word, or, as he styled himself in one of his books, a "trouvère."

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

In conception and expression is he essentially an artist and not an irresponsible trouvère.

From The Function of the Poet and Other Essays by Lowell, James Russell

In the first part all the love-poetry of troubadour and trouvère is gathered up and presented under the guise of a graceful dreamy symbolism, a little though not much sicklied o'er with learning.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George