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| Original Title: | Poésies |
| ISBN: | 0874512360 (ISBN13: 9780874512366) |
| Edition Language: | English |
François Villon
Paperback | Pages: 270 pages Rating: 4.18 | 1421 Users | 47 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Poems of François Villon |
| Author | : | François Villon |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 270 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 1982 by University Press of New England (first published 1459) |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Cultural. France. Classics. Literature. European Literature. French Literature. Historical. Medieval |
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Can't believe I haven't rated this one yet... Villon is Rimbaud and Baudelaire and Poe and Genet a half-millennium before those beloved brethren in sin. Villon is the bloodied words of God writ on the Satanic chasuble. Villon is the banished poet-murderer-thief haunting the interstices of a dead-lily hued Middle Ages. Villon is original sin. Villon wrote "Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?", one of the most famous lines of poetry ever penned. Villon is the snows of yesteryear- Villon is the shadow of existence- François des Loges, François de Montcorbier, Michel Mouton, fleeing Paris with gold stolen from the broken chapel, Villon's guilty tears stained the parchment with eternal bitter blood-testaments. Villon wanders the darkest regions of the vanished dream of the 15th century, finds his way into Rabelais, and vaults over into the land of death without a sound, a true ghost, only existing forever between the lines scrawled on time-harried pages, decayed and disbursed to become the fertile undersoil of all succeeding French literature.Rating Appertaining To Books The Poems of François Villon
Ratings: 4.18 From 1421 Users | 47 ReviewsAssessment Appertaining To Books The Poems of François Villon
i reread this continuallyone of the most completely alive poets and poetries there isCan't believe I haven't rated this one yet... Villon is Rimbaud and Baudelaire and Poe and Genet a half-millennium before those beloved brethren in sin. Villon is the bloodied words of God writ on the Satanic chasuble. Villon is the banished poet-murderer-thief haunting the interstices of a dead-lily hued Middle Ages. Villon is original sin. Villon wrote "Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?", one of the most famous lines of poetry ever penned. Villon is the snows of yesteryear- Villon is the shadow
Villon is medieval France's version of Charles Bukowski. A carouser, thief, murderer and poet, Villon's writings star the sordid characters of Paris and their unsavory deeds. The mystique of Villon is aided by his banishment from Paris and his mysterious exit from the pages of history. His poems resuscitate the thieves, prostitutes and drunks for one more round in the 21st century. David Georgi's translation might be the best.
Excellent poetry.
I've always liked the "superhero" writers (kafka, villon,Disraeli!), working a desk job by day, writing gold by night.
passion. humor. // don't piss off the king. if u do, make sure u have a poem good enough to pardon u before your hanging.
What a disappointing translation by Georgi! Translators of traditional poetry must choose between fidelity to form, to rhyme and meter, or fidelity to content, to meaning and syntax. Georgi chooses neither. For Villon, I favor a verse translation to capture his crucial element: his musicality. If he has any modern affinities aesthetically, it's with French chanson more than literature. Of course, his influence on Rimbaud and Apollinaire is often cited, but it's one of content not form: his
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