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François Villons Lais : Versuch einer Gesamtdeutung.
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ISBN: 3533027716 9783533027713 Year: 1979 Volume: 34 Publisher: Heidelberg Winter

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The poetry of François Villon : text and context
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ISBN: 0521792703 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

Roman et société sous Louis XIV : Madame de Villedieu (Marie-Catherine Desjardins 1640-1683).
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ISBN: 2729500693 Year: 1979 Publisher: Paris : Champion,

Complete poems / Villon, François
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ISBN: 0802071929 Year: 1994 Publisher: Toronto University of Toronto


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Francois Villon
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ISBN: 1487585810 9781487585815 Year: 1994 Publisher: Toronto

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Francois Villon was the last of the great medieval poets, as important in his own, more limited, sphere as Chaucer or Dante. His fame surpasses that of any other medieval French lyricist in spite of the modest quantity, uneven quality, and often repellent subject-matter of his work. His poems are largely autobiographical, and are rich in their descriptions of thefts, fights, nocturnal prowling, imprisonment, and exile. However, as Barbara Sargent-Baur points out, when Villon's work is good, it is very good, indeed unforgettable. His two major works are the Lais, a series of bequests in anticipation of his prudent departure from Paris, and Testament, which is about his primary topic, himself. There have been many translations of Villon's work into many languages, including English, but this is the first edition of the whole of the corpus utilizing a re-reading of all the manuscript sources and presenting for each poem a single-source text with all emendations accounted for. It is also the first annotated English version based on the best-text principle and respecting both Villon's meaning and his metrics. A modern edition of the French texts is presented beside the English on facing pages. In an extensive commentary, Sargent-Baur identifies the poet's literary and historical allusions, as well as place-names, legatees, and biographical data.

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