The Poems of Francois Villon

by François Villon, Galway Kinnell (Translator), Galway Kinnell (Introduction)

Overview

This bilingual edition of the 15th-century poet's work incorporates recent scholarship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780874512366
Publisher:	University Press of New England
Publication date:	06/01/1982
Edition description:	New bilingual French-English ed.
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Francois Villon was born in Paris in 1431. His life was blighted by destitution, ill health, torture and exile. We do not know what became of Villon after his 32nd year, by which time he had written all that has survived of his intelligent and candid verse.

Peter Dale, born in Surrey, England, worked as a school teacher until 1993, when he became a freelance writer and translator. Anvil publish his own poems, as well as his translations from Jules Laforgue and Francois Villon, and of Dante's Divine Comedy.

Editorial Reviews

"[Kinnell's] muscular English earns him a place beside such masters as Ezra Pound and Paul Blackburn, enabling him to repossess Villon definitively for our time and place."-- "Voice Literary Supplement"

[Kinnell s] muscular English earns him a place beside such masters as Ezra Pound and Paul Blackburn, enabling him to repossess Villon definitively for our time and place. Voice Literary Supplement"

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