Ortaçağda Lirik Ve Modern Bir Şair: François Villon
François Villon: A Modern and Lyrical Poet in the Middle Ages

Summary/Abstract: François Villon was born in Paris in 1431 and died in 1463; he is recognized as one of the most important poets in French literature and the best known of the late Middle Ages. Villon became a student in arts, University of Paris. His two collections of poems, especially “Le Testament” and “Le Grand Testament” have traditionally been read as his autobiographical life. The verses of these two Testament are marked by the immediate prospect of death. The tone of tragic sincerity is very remarkable and stands in contrast to the poetry of his time. Villon was a great innovator of the themes of poetry and a great renovator of the forms. He represents the starting point of modern poetry in ballad form of the Middle Ages. “La Ballade des pendus” of Villon describing other forms of misery and death is the best-known poem. It is highly believed that Villon wrote it in prison while waiting his execution. The ballad was one of the principal forms for music and poetry in fourteenth and fifteenth-century France and Villon has been greatly admired by many poets a pioneer in the twentieth century.

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