François Villon
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"François Villon was a poet, thief, vagabond and master at combining lyrical texts with veiled obscenities. His love of language is reflected in his extensive knowledge of the jobelin, an argot secret language used by medieval crime societies. He finds himself repeatedly on the wrong end of the prison bars, where he also writes some of his most famous works, including his "Ballad of the Hanged". He is the precursor of the equally criminally inclined writer 20th-century Jean Genet and the first representative of prison literature as a genre."--A History of Erotica (2011) by Jan-Willem Geerinck |
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François Villon (1431 - 1463) was a French poet, thief, and vagabond. He is perhaps best known for his Le quatrain que feit Villon quand il fut jugé à mourir, written when condemned to death. The question "Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?," taken from the Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis and translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti as "Where are the snows of yesteryear?," is one of the most famous lines of translated poetry in the English-speaking world.
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- "The poems of Master Francis Villon of Paris : now first done into English verse in the original forms, by John Payne"
- Medieval poetry
- If I Were King
- Jobelin
