The poetry of Villon and Baudelaire
Subtitle: two worlds, one human condition
By: Robert R. Daniel.
Series: Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures,; vol. 52
Publisher: P. Lang; Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; frm; fre
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Villon, François, b. 1431 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 -- Criticism and interpretation.; French poetry -- History and criticism.; Human beings in literature.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-180) and indexes.