The Poetry of François Villon
Subtitle: Text and Context (Cambridge Studies in French)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 13, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780521024242
Subjects: Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; French; Europe; Continental European; Poetry; Literary Collections / Continental European; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Poetry-Continental European; Villon, Fran?cois, --b. 1431--Criticism and i; Villon, Franðcois,--b. 1431--Criticism and interpretation; European - General
First sentence: When Harold Bloom coined the phrase 'anxiety of influence',2 when he pictured poets entering into a psychic struggle to create their own imaginative space, when he spoke of their agonised recognition of their own belatedness, poets all over the world surely nodded their acquiescence.