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Ballads and Lyrics of Old France: with Other Poems
Ballads and Lyrics of Old
France: with Other Poems
Andrew Lang
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Ballads and Lyrics of Old France: with Other Poems
LIST OF POETS TRANSLATED
I. CHARLES D'ORLEANS, who has sometimes, for no very obvious
reason, been styled the father of French lyric poetry, was born in May,
1391. He was the son of Louis D'Orleans, the grandson of Charles V., and
the father of Louis XII. Captured at Agincourt, he was kept in England as
a prisoner from 1415 to 1440, when he returned to France, where he died
in 1465. His verses, for the most part roundels on two rhymes, are songs
of love and spring, and retain the allegorical forms of the Roman de la
Rose.
II. FRANCOIS VILLON, 1431-14-? Nothing is known of Villon's
birth or death, and only too much of his life. In his poems the ancient
forms of French verse are animated with the keenest sense of personal
emotion, of love, of melancholy, of mocking despair, and of repentance for
a life passed in taverns and prisons.
III. JOACHIM DU BELLAY, 1525-1560. The exact date of Du
Bellay's birth is unknown. He was certainly a little younger than Ronsard,
who was born in September, 1524, although an attempt has been made to
prove that his birth took place in 1525, as pensation from Nature to
France for the battle of Pavia. As a poet Du Bellay had the start, by a few
mouths, of Ronsard; his RECUEIL was published in 1549. The question of
priority in the new style of poetry caused a quarrel, which did not long
separate the two singers. Du Bellay is perhaps the most interesting of the
Pleiad, pany of Seven, who attempted to reform French verse, by
inspiring it with the enthusiasm of the Renaissance. His book
L'ILLUSTRATION DE LA LANGUE FRANCAISE is a plea for the
study of ancient models and for the improvement of the vernacular. In this
effort Du Bellay and Ronsard are the predecessors of Malherbe, and of
Andre Chenier, more essful through their frank eagerness t