Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Note on the Poets and the Poems
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Then and Now: The Legend of Villon in the Middle Ages and in Modernity
- 2 Villon and Swinburne: Finding and Singing Villon
- 3 Villon and Rossetti: Poetics of Strangeness
- 4 Villon and Pound: Modernity and the ‘Mediaeval Dream’
- 5 Villon and Bunting: Prison-Writing and Parody
- 6 Villon and Lowell: Imitation and the Visible Translator
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3
- Appendix 4
- Appendix 5
- Appendix 6
- Bibliography
- Index
- Medievalism
Appendix 4
from Appendices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 October 2019
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Note on the Poets and the Poems
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Then and Now: The Legend of Villon in the Middle Ages and in Modernity
- 2 Villon and Swinburne: Finding and Singing Villon
- 3 Villon and Rossetti: Poetics of Strangeness
- 4 Villon and Pound: Modernity and the ‘Mediaeval Dream’
- 5 Villon and Bunting: Prison-Writing and Parody
- 6 Villon and Lowell: Imitation and the Visible Translator
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3
- Appendix 4
- Appendix 5
- Appendix 6
- Bibliography
- Index
- Medievalism
Summary
Ezra Pound in The Spirit of Romance, pp. 184–5 (poem is unnamed).
Death, ‘gainst thine harshness I appeal
That hath torn my leman from me,
Thou goest not yet contentedly
Though of sorrow of thee none doth me heal.
No power or might did she e'er wield,
In life what harm e'er did she thee
Ah, Death!
Two we! that with one heart did feel,
If she is dead, how then, dividedly
Shal I live on, sans life in me.
Save as statues ‘neath thy seal
Thou Death!
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- Information
- François Villon in English PoetryTranslation and Influence, pp. 189Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2018