Title: The poetry of Villon and Baudelaire
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, History and criticism, Human beings in literature, French poetry, Villon, francois, 1431-1463, Baudelaire, charles, 1821-1867
People: Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), François Villon (b. 1431)
LC classification: PQ1593 .D36 1997