Enuig

The "enuig" or "enueg" (Occitan for "complaint" or "vexation") is a genre of lyric poetry practised by the troubadours. Somewhat similar to the "sirventes", the "enuig" was generally a litany of complaints, few of them connect topically to the others. The word "enuig" appears frequently in such works. It is generally regarded more as interesting than as good poetry. The Monge de Montaudon was the first master of the "enuig".

Raymond Hill defined an "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 "enuig", citing also example from Petrarch. Richard Levin considers the anonymous English poem beginning "Whear giltles men ar greuously opreste" to be an "enuig".

ources

*Chambers, Frank M. "An Introduction to Old Provençal Versification". Diane, 1985. ISBN 0 87169 167 1.
*Levin, Richard. "A Second English "Enueg", "Philological Quarterly", 53:3 (1974:Summer), pp. 428–30.
*Wilkins, Ernest. "The "Enueg" in Petrarch and Shakespear", "MP", 13 (1915), pp. 495–6.