Did you remember Francois Villon? S.
 
At 2:47 PM -0500 3/30/98, Tanya Adele Koehnke wrote:
>Dear Ezra Pound List Subscribers:
>
>In my second-last year of undergraduate studies in English Literature, I
>wrote a
>n essay
>on Ezra Pound's poem, "Villonaud for this Yule".  After researching the word
>"villonaud", I came up with little more than my own insight about its meaning.
>I
>suggested that Pound, an Early Modernist, may have been mocking the
>traditional
>"villanelle" form by using the term "villonaud".  Noting that "vil" is the
>Frenc
>h word
>for "cheap, of little value", and that "aud" rings of "ode", I further
>argued th
>at
>"Villonaud for this Yule" is a cheap ode (or spiritually impoverished
>"hymn") ab
>out
>Christmas.
>
>In retrospect, I am now wondering whether I was on the right track with
>regards
>to the
>term "villonaud".  I would greatly appreciate any responses to my insights!!
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Tanya ([log in to unmask])