Contents

pp v-v

A Note on the Poets and the Poems

pp vi-vii

Acknowledgements

pp viii-viii

Introduction

pp 1-15

1 - Then and Now: The Legend of Villon in the Middle Ages and in Modernity

pp 16-31

2 - Villon and Swinburne: Finding and Singing Villon

pp 32-56

3 - Villon and Rossetti: Poetics of Strangeness

pp 57-84

4 - Villon and Pound: Modernity and the ‘Mediaeval Dream’

pp 85-113

5 - Villon and Bunting: Prison-Writing and Parody

pp 114-140

6 - Villon and Lowell: Imitation and the Visible Translator

pp 141-162

Conclusion

pp 163-182

Appendices

Appendix 1

pp 183-186

Appendix 2

pp 187-188

Appendix 3

pp 189-189

Appendix 4

pp 189-189

Appendix 5

pp 190-192

Appendix 6

pp 193-195

Bibliography

pp 196-210

Index

pp 211-214

Medievalism

pp 215-216