Author: François Villon
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9780874512366
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This new (bilingual) edition of the 15th-century poet1s work incorporates recent scholarship.
The Poems of François Villon
Author: François Villon
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9780874512366
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This new (bilingual) edition of the 15th-century poet1s work incorporates recent scholarship.
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9780874512366
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This new (bilingual) edition of the 15th-century poet1s work incorporates recent scholarship.
Poems
Author: François Villon
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810128780
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
One of the most original and influential European poets of the Middle Ages, François Villon took his inspiration from the streets, taverns, and jails of Paris. Villon was a subversive voice speaking from the margins of society. He wrote about love and sex, money trouble, "the thieving rich," and the consolations of good food and wine. His work is striking in its directness, wit, and gritty urban realism. Villon’s writing spurred the development of the psychologically complex first-person voice in lyric poetry. He has influenced generations of avant-garde poets and artists. Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine have emulated Villon’s poetry. Claude Debussy set it to music, and Bertolt Brecht adapted it for the stage. Ezra Pound championed Villon’s poetry and became largely responsible for its impact on modern verse. With David Georgi’s ingenious translation, English-speaking audiences finally have a text that captures the riotous energy and wordplay of the original. With a newly revised French text that reflects the latest scholarship, this bilingual edition also features inviting and informative notes that illuminate the nuances of Villon’s poems and the world of medieval Paris.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810128780
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
One of the most original and influential European poets of the Middle Ages, François Villon took his inspiration from the streets, taverns, and jails of Paris. Villon was a subversive voice speaking from the margins of society. He wrote about love and sex, money trouble, "the thieving rich," and the consolations of good food and wine. His work is striking in its directness, wit, and gritty urban realism. Villon’s writing spurred the development of the psychologically complex first-person voice in lyric poetry. He has influenced generations of avant-garde poets and artists. Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine have emulated Villon’s poetry. Claude Debussy set it to music, and Bertolt Brecht adapted it for the stage. Ezra Pound championed Villon’s poetry and became largely responsible for its impact on modern verse. With David Georgi’s ingenious translation, English-speaking audiences finally have a text that captures the riotous energy and wordplay of the original. With a newly revised French text that reflects the latest scholarship, this bilingual edition also features inviting and informative notes that illuminate the nuances of Villon’s poems and the world of medieval Paris.
The Legacy
Author: François Villon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Louis Simpson's translation of Francois Villon's The Legacy and The Testament has achieved the impossible, as Simpson has created the definitive translation of the life work of France's greatest poet of the 15th century Abandoned by his parents at an early age and raised by a foster father, later imprisoned, chained and tortured, somehow Villon survived to write one of the most enduring epics ever.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Louis Simpson's translation of Francois Villon's The Legacy and The Testament has achieved the impossible, as Simpson has created the definitive translation of the life work of France's greatest poet of the 15th century Abandoned by his parents at an early age and raised by a foster father, later imprisoned, chained and tortured, somehow Villon survived to write one of the most enduring epics ever.
Francois Villon
Author: François Villon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Francois Villon was the last of the great medieval poets, as important in his own, more limited, sphere as Chaucer or Dante. His fame surpasses that of any other medieval French lyricist in spite of the modest quantity, uneven quality, and often repellent subject-matter of his work. His poems are largely autobiographical, and are rich in their descriptions of thefts, fights, nocturnal prowling, imprisonment, and exile. However, as Barbara Sargent-Baur points outs, when Villon’s work is good, it is very good, indeed unforgettable. His two major works are the Lais, a series of bequests in anticipation of his prudent departure from Paris, and Testament, which is about his primary topic, himself. There have been many translations of Villon’s work into many languages, including English, but this is the first edition of the whole of the corpus utilizing a re-reading of all the manuscript sources and presenting for each poem a single-source text with all emendations accounted for. It is also the first annotated English version based on the best-text principle and respecting both Villon’s meaning and his metrics. A modern edition of the French texts is presented beside the English on facing pages. In an extensive commentary, Sargent-Baur identifies the poet’s literary and historical allusions, as well as place-names, legatees, and biographical data.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Francois Villon was the last of the great medieval poets, as important in his own, more limited, sphere as Chaucer or Dante. His fame surpasses that of any other medieval French lyricist in spite of the modest quantity, uneven quality, and often repellent subject-matter of his work. His poems are largely autobiographical, and are rich in their descriptions of thefts, fights, nocturnal prowling, imprisonment, and exile. However, as Barbara Sargent-Baur points outs, when Villon’s work is good, it is very good, indeed unforgettable. His two major works are the Lais, a series of bequests in anticipation of his prudent departure from Paris, and Testament, which is about his primary topic, himself. There have been many translations of Villon’s work into many languages, including English, but this is the first edition of the whole of the corpus utilizing a re-reading of all the manuscript sources and presenting for each poem a single-source text with all emendations accounted for. It is also the first annotated English version based on the best-text principle and respecting both Villon’s meaning and his metrics. A modern edition of the French texts is presented beside the English on facing pages. In an extensive commentary, Sargent-Baur identifies the poet’s literary and historical allusions, as well as place-names, legatees, and biographical data.
The Poetry of François Villon
Author: Jane H. M. Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521792707
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Taylor explores the work of François Villon and his relationship to his predecessors and contemporaries.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521792707
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Taylor explores the work of François Villon and his relationship to his predecessors and contemporaries.
The Complete Works of François Villon
Author: François Villon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
I Know All Save Myself Alone
Author: Lisa Monde
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465310363
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
The play tells a life story of the greatest French poet of the 15th century - Francois Villon, also known as the “Voice of Paris”. The story leads us from Villon’s student years, when he used to be an assiduous scholar of Sorbonne and foster child of the senior Priest Guillaume de Villon, to the time when the poet gets involved with a bad company and is being lead into the mire of thefts, burglaries, and fi nally – unpremeditated murder. After the crime Villon is banished from Paris and he wanders in the precincts of the city fi ghting for survival, retaining his fervent mind, sharp tongue, skill of scoffi ng his enemies and ill-wishers in his poems. However, the prodigal son returns to Paris to fi nd his place in this world... Being banished for the last time, he vanishes from Paris and vanishes from History.....
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465310363
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
The play tells a life story of the greatest French poet of the 15th century - Francois Villon, also known as the “Voice of Paris”. The story leads us from Villon’s student years, when he used to be an assiduous scholar of Sorbonne and foster child of the senior Priest Guillaume de Villon, to the time when the poet gets involved with a bad company and is being lead into the mire of thefts, burglaries, and fi nally – unpremeditated murder. After the crime Villon is banished from Paris and he wanders in the precincts of the city fi ghting for survival, retaining his fervent mind, sharp tongue, skill of scoffi ng his enemies and ill-wishers in his poems. However, the prodigal son returns to Paris to fi nd his place in this world... Being banished for the last time, he vanishes from Paris and vanishes from History.....
The Poems of Francois Villon
Author: François Villon
Publisher: Signet Classics
ISBN: 9780451502889
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This bilingual edition of the 15th-century poet's work incorporates recent scholarship.
Publisher: Signet Classics
ISBN: 9780451502889
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This bilingual edition of the 15th-century poet's work incorporates recent scholarship.
Introduction to French Poetry
Author: Stanley Appelbaum
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486119998
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Works by Villon, Ronsard, Voltaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, many more. Full French texts with literal English translations on facing pages. Biographical, critical information on each poet. Introduction. 31 black-and-white illustrations.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486119998
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Works by Villon, Ronsard, Voltaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, many more. Full French texts with literal English translations on facing pages. Biographical, critical information on each poet. Introduction. 31 black-and-white illustrations.
The Poetry of Villon and Baudelaire
Author: Robert R. Daniel
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Finds that both French poets, 15th-century Villon and 19th- century Baudelaire, oppose life in the world to the spiritual and the poetically transcendent. Examines their affinities through the themes of temporality, physical constraint, deterioration, death, putrefication, and the danse macabre. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Finds that both French poets, 15th-century Villon and 19th- century Baudelaire, oppose life in the world to the spiritual and the poetically transcendent. Examines their affinities through the themes of temporality, physical constraint, deterioration, death, putrefication, and the danse macabre. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR