Fran???ois Villon was born in Paris in 1431. His life was blighted by destitution and ill health, robbery and murder, torture and exile. While we do not know what became of Villon after his 32nd year, the poems he produced in just six years capture in forceful, intelligent and candid verse the low and high life of Paris. They constitute a body of work with few rivals in the literature of his own country or in that of any other. Peter Dale has revised his translations for this new edition. Peter Dale was born in Addleston, ...
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Fran???ois Villon was born in Paris in 1431. His life was blighted by destitution and ill health, robbery and murder, torture and exile. While we do not know what became of Villon after his 32nd year, the poems he produced in just six years capture in forceful, intelligent and candid verse the low and high life of Paris. They constitute a body of work with few rivals in the literature of his own country or in that of any other. Peter Dale has revised his translations for this new edition. Peter Dale was born in Addleston, Surrey, and worked as a secondary school teacher before becoming a freelance writer in 1993. He was co-editor of the poetry journal Agenda for many years. Well known for his translations of Dante's Divine Comedy and the poems of Jules Laforgue, he is also an accomplished poet in his own right. His selected poems, Edge to Edge , was published in 1997.
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Clean & Unmarked in Good jacket. Size: 8x5x1; A very clean & straight copy. Unclipped dust-jacket has a couple of tears & small chips. Otherwise clean & straight. 246 pp.
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Like New. 1977 Houghton Mifflin hard cover-1st edition 1st printing-slight staining to dust jacket (now in mylar cover) and page edge-otherwise a very clean fine collectible-enjoy.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Galway Kinnell. Text in French and English, on facing pages. Octavo. xxiv, 246pp. Endpapers and topedge lightly foxed, else a very good copy in very good dust jacket; white pictorial jacket is lightly dust soiled, tiny creased tear at fold of front flap, blank verso is moderately foxed, else quite bright. From the library of poet David Ignatow with his label affixed onto front pastedown. Inscribed by Galway Kinnell to poet David Ignatow: "To Dave, affectionately, Galway" (on the title page).
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0395257174. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (Tiny nick at botom edge of front panel of jacket. ); 8vo 8"-9" tall; 246 pages.