Rondels of spring by Charles d’Orléans, prisoner in England after Agincourt, Villon’s ballad of the gibbet, Du Bellay’s hymn to the winds and lyrics by Ronsard appear here in English versions, alongside anonymous French folk ballads and poems from the nineteenth century. Lang prefaces the book with brief notes on each poet translated, and adds some verses of his own.
Graceful translations that helped bring the old French forms, the rondel and ballade, into English poetry. Download the free EPUB.