(P/B) POEMS

Παρουσίαση

Francois Villon was born in Paris in 1431. His life was blighted by destitution and ill health, robbery and murder, torture and exile. While we do not know what became of Villon after his 32nd year, the poems he produced in just six years capture in forceful, intelligent and candid verse the low and high life of Paris. They constitute a body of work with few rivals in the literature of his own country or in that of any other. His work was greatly admired by Ezra Pound, who ranked him with Sappho and Catullus in his pantheon of great lyric poets.
Peter Dale has revised his translations for this new edition. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

A NOTE ON THE TEXT
PREFACE
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ON VILLON
DALE'S PREAMBLE
The Legacy [The Little Testament of Villon]
The Testament [The Great Testament]
Ballade [Ballade of the Ladies of Time Past]
Another Ballade [Ballade of the Lords of Time Past]
Another Ballade [Ballade in Old French]
The Old Woman Regretting the Days of her Youth [The Regrets of the Lovely Armouress]
Ballade [The Lovely Armouress to the Girls on the Game]
Double Ballade
Ballade [Ballade for Praying to our Lady]
Ballade [Ballade to his Girl-friend]
Lay [Rondeau]
Ballade [Ballade and Prayer]
Ballade [Ballade for Robert d'Estouteville]
Ballade
Ballade [The Contradictions to Franc Gontier]
Ballade [Ballade of the Women of Paris]
Ballade [Ballade of the Fat Margot]
[Good Lesson to the Lost Children]
Ballade [Ballade of Good Doctrine]
Song
Epitaph
Verset [Rondeau]
Ballade [Ballade of Pardon]
Another Ballade
Other Poems
Ballade [Ballade of Good Advice]
Ballade [Ballade against the Enemies of France]
Ballade [Ballade from the Contest at Blois]
Letter [Letter to his Friends]
Request to Monseigneur de Bourbon
The Debate between Villon's Heart and Body
Problem [Ballade in the Name of Fortune]
[Quatrain]
Villon's Epitaph [Ballade of the Men Hanged]
Praise to the Court [Request to the Court of Parliament]
Question to the Clerk at the Gate [Ballade of the Appeal]
NOTES
VARIANTS
INDEX OF FRENCH TITLES AND FIRST LINES
INDEX OF ENGLISH TITLES AND FIRST LINES