Enuig
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{{short description|Genre of Occitan poetry}}
The {{lang|pro|enuig}}, {{lang|pro|enueg}} or {{lang|pro|enuech}} ({{IPA|pro|eˈnɥitʃ|label=Old Occitan:}}; "complaint, vexation") is a genre of lyric poetry practised by the troubadours. Somewhat similar to the {{lang|pro|sirventes}}, the {{lang|pro|enuig}} was generally a litany of complaints, few of them connect topically to the others. The word "{{lang|pro|enuig}}" appears frequently in such works. The Monge de Montaudon was the first master of the {{lang|pro|enuig}}.
Raymond Hill defined an {{lang|pro|enueg}} as "the enumeration in epigrammatic style of a series of vexatious things". He finds the genre continued in later medieval Catalan, Italian, French, and Galician-Portuguese literature. Ernest Wilkins considered William Shakespeare's Sonnet LXVI an example of an English {{lang|pro|enuig}}, citing also example from Petrarch. Richard Levin considers the anonymous English poem beginning "Whear giltles men ar greuously opreste" to be an {{lang|pro|enuig}}.
Sources
- Chambers, Frank M. An Introduction to Old Provençal Versification. Diane, 1985. {{ISBN|0-87169-167-1}}.
- Hill, Raymond Thompson. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/456780 "The Enueg"], Periodical of the Modern Languages Association, 27 (1912), pp. 265–96.
- Hill, Raymond Thompson. [https://archive.org/stream/jstor-457003/457003#page/n0/mode/2up "The Enueg and Plazer in Medieval French and Italian"], Periodical of the Modern Languages Association, 30 (1915), pp. 42–63.
- Levin, Richard. "A Second English Enueg", Philological Quarterly, 53:3 (1974:Summer), pp. 428–30.
- Wilkins, Ernest. "The Enueg in Petrarch and Shakespeare", MP, 13 (1915), pp. 495–96.
{{Western medieval lyric forms}}