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Excerpt from The Poems of Master Francis Villon of Paris: Now First Done Into English Verse in the Original Forms With a Biographical and Critical Introduction by John Payne In putting together the following pages I should be sorry to allow it to be supposed that I contem plated any exhaustive study of the man or of his work. My sole object has been to present the facts and hypotheses, of which we are in possession on the subject, in such a plain and accessible form as may furnish to those readers Of the translation of his strange and splendid verse who (and we know that they are as yet many) are unacquainted with the poems, and perhaps even with the name of Villon,' some unpretentious introduction, as well as to his personality and habit of thought as to the circum stance and local colouring of his verse. The rest I leave to more competent hands than my own, con tent if I have, in the following sketch and in the translation to which it is intended to serve as preface, set ajar one more door, long sadly moss-grown and ivy-hidden, into that enchanted wonderland of French poetry, which glows with such spring-tide glory of many-coloured bloom, such autumn majesty of ma tured fruit. 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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Poems of Master Francis Villon of Paris
• Subtitle: Now First Done Into English Verse in the Original Forms with a Biographical and Critical Introduction by John Payne (Classic Reprint)
• Author: Francois Villon
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290
• EAN: 9781330035580
• ISBN: 9781330035580
• ID: 09456831
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 390 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. June 2015

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