Ballads And Lyrics Classic Reprint

Author : Andrew Lang
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ISBN 13 : 9781331058670
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book Ballads Lyrics of Old France written by Andrew Lang and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ballads Lyrics of Old France: With Other Poems 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."