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The Poetry of Villon and Baudelaire is a comparative reading of Franois Villon's and Charles Baudelaire's poetry. Despite the intervening centuries, these works are analogous in a number of ways. More than a collection of verses, the Lais, the Testament, and Les Fleurs du Mal share an overarching design. They evoke a poetic universe where life in the world is opposed to the spiritual and the poetically transcendent. This study elucidates the affinities by examining the poets' treatment of certain themes: temporality, physical constraint, deterioration, death, putrefaction, and the danse macabre.
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Text: English, French, French
Poetry of Villon and Baudelaire: Two Worlds, One Human Condition FROM THE PUBLISHER
The Poetry of Villon and Baudelaire is a comparative reading of Francois Villon's and Charles Baudelaire's poetry. Despite the intervening centuries, these works are analogous in a number of ways. More than a collection of verses, the Lais, the Testament, and Les Fleurs du Mal share an overarching design. They evoke a poetic universe where life in the world is opposed to the spiritual and the poetically transcendent. This study elucidates the affinities by examining the poets' treatment of certain themes: temporality, physical constraint, deterioration, death, putrefaction, and the danse macabre.
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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".
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