دانلود کتاب Henri Baude, a Poet in Villon's Shadow

The name of François Villon is listed in such a prominent place in the history of French poetry that the work of all other poets of the age is destined to remain in the background. Henri Baude is another writer who lived during the same period (the second half of the fifteenth century) and wrote very much in the style of the great master, Villon. The object of this study is to revive the works of the lesser-known Baude, to analyze them closely, and to render to them their due place in the history of French poetry.

Introductory Chapter I of this dissertation enumerates the previous works published on Baude, and the second chapter briefly sketches in the poets of a bourgeois mentality who wrote prior to Baudee

Because Baude's personal life and the events of his time provide the subject matter for a great many of his poems, there are included chapters dealing with the poet's biography and the historical events of the fifteenth century about which he wrote.

Chapter V, a kind of "running commentary" on the poet's works, discusses the actual subject matter and possible inspiration of each poem. Finally, in Chapter VI, it is determined which fixed forms he preferred in poetry, how he handled his rime and metrics and how he used the language of his day.

Included at the end of the study is a reproduction of the collected works by Henri Baude (since they have never been collected in one volume before and are not readily accessible to the public) along with footnotes and a glossary-name index to aid the reader.