Compléter Book Blurbs 9 Version en ligne Book Blurbs par Michael Riccioli 1 from merits edition volume readers authors well poems translations on introductory for Mediaeval Latin Lyrics by Helen Waddell Four Courts 2008 Helen Waddell's classic of verse from Latin has been inspiring medievalists 85 years . The anthologized , which range in date the 1st to the 13th century , are by such as Boethius , Paulinus of Nola , Venantius Fortunatus and Alcuin , as as anonymous poets from the Carmina Burana . This features a new essay by John Scattergood the translations' and their reception by Waddell's first .