An edition of The poetry of Villon and Baudelaire (1997)
The poetry of Villon and Baudelaire
two worlds, one human condition
By Robert R. Daniel
Publish Date
1997
Publisher
P. Lang,Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter
Language
eng
Pages
196
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.