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Article: The Poetry of Francois Villon: Text and Context.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2004
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The Poetry of Francis Villon: Text and Context. By JANE H. M. TAYLOR. (Cambridge Studies in French, 68) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2001. xii + 234 pp. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-79270-3.
Avoiding the tendency of some earlier critics to formulate an all-embracing view of Villon, Jane Taylor looks at his multiple identities. Accordingly she is deliberately selective in the poems she analyses, and her purpose is to demonstrate the different ways in which, far from being an alienated outsider, Villon enthusiastically engages with the poetics of his day, well aware of the work of his predecessors and contemporaries. At the same time she warns of the difficulty for ...
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