Ordinary Love was my favorite. It is a fine treatment of the villanelle. Perhaps by leading off with it the other poems shine less brightly.
Regarding Passerat, French critics and literary historians generally do not include the villanelle among the traditional fixed forms. But this has not discouraged fine poets from writing fine villanelle. You mention De Banville's judgement. He was a great composer of ballades. Anyway I give the laurel branch to Ordinary Love.
Ordinary Love was my favorite. It is a fine treatment of the villanelle. Perhaps by leading off with it the other poems shine less brightly.
Regarding Passerat, French critics and literary historians generally do not include the villanelle among the traditional fixed forms. But this has not discouraged fine poets from writing fine villanelle. You mention De Banville's judgement. He was a great composer of ballades. Anyway I give the laurel branch to Ordinary Love.
I'm glad you liked "Ordinary Love," especially since it was my first villanelle.