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Francois Villon in English Poetry - Translation and Influence (Hardcover)
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Francois Villon in English Poetry - Translation and Influence (Hardcover)
Series: Medievalism
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Responses from the nineteenth century onwards to the medieval
French poet. Medieval Paris' paradigmatic poet, Francois Villon,
has long captured the imaginations of creative writers. Attracted
by his beguilingly pseudo-autobiographical literary persona and a
body of work that moves seamlessly between bawdy humour,
bitterness, devotion, and regret, Villon's heirs have been many and
varied. A veritable "poet's poet", his oeuvre has appealed to
fellow versifiers in particular, providing a rich source for
translation and imitation. This book explores creative responses to
Villon by British and North American poets, focusing on
translations and imitations of his work by Algernon Swinburne,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ezra Pound, Basil Bunting, and Robert
Lowell. They are presented as exemplary of the greater trend of
rendering Villon into English, transporting the reader from the
first verse translations of his work in the nineteenth century, to
post-modern adaptations and parodies ofVillon in the twentieth. By
concentrating on the manner in which individual poets have reacted
to Villon, and to one another, the study unravels multiple layers
of poetic relations. It argues that the relationships that exist
between the translated or imitated texts are collaborative as much
as they are competitive, establishing a canon of Villon in English
poetry whose allusions are not only to the French source, but to
the parallel corpus of English translations and imitations. CLAIRE
PASCOLINI-CAMPBELL holds degrees in medieval and comparative
literatures from the University of St Andrews and University
College London.
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