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“... Le lesserez la, le povre Villon?’ – Will you leave poor Villon here? – the poet asks in an appeal from Meung-sur-Loire, near Orléans, where he was detained at the Bishop’s pleasure, probably in 1461. ‘Epistre a ses amis’ reads now, in the light of so much scholarship, translation, loose-clad homage and general ventriloquism on the part of a wide and posthumous circle of acquaintance from Swinburne to Lowell and beyond, like a request to be left in peace – Villon is something of a cottage industry and the generator has been whirring fairly constantly beside the mallow patch ...”

“... figures, living and past, could be regarded as ‘conventional’. No one could describe Francois Villon or Marlowe or Chatterton or Baudelaire or D.H. Lawrence or Ernest Hemingway as conventional, but what about Thomas Hardy or Anthony Trollope or Jane Austen or Charles Dickens or John Galsworthy? And, in particular, what about John Mortimer? He would, I ...”

“... desperate” then, “Everything/must go!”’ But to recognise the commonality between François Villon and Crazy Eddie’s Used Fords, Armantrout implies, is not to give up on art: someone will always, her poem concludes,                     have set down a diner or a gas station at a desolate crossroads and tried naming ...”

“... Brecht. There were charges of plagiarism: Brecht had used K.L. Ammer’s translation of ballads by François Villon to replace some of Gay’s songs without acknowledging that he had done so. Ihering, the Berlin critic and one of Brecht’s strongest supporters, described The Threepenny Opera as a ‘light ancillary work’. And then there were its ...”

“... and revolution are sublime forms of self-expression. At the head of this parade is the rogue poet François Villon, imprisoned in the Châtelet in 1462; on the last float, the heroines from Jacques Rivette’s 1981 movie, Le Pont du Nord, are waving goodbye, along with the two keynote Situationists, Guy Debord and Raoul Vaneigem. The Other Paris is also ...”

“... through which the central character moves are. Al is preparing a radio programme for the BBC about François Villon – wouldn’t a female contributor of the time have her ideas patronisingly indulged or dismissed? One of the privileges of masculinity is not to be reminded of it.The modern range of gender identifications wasn’t available to Duffy ...”

“... but didn’t. Both loved the classic writers of low-life – George Borrow, William Cobbett, François Villon, Laurence Sterne, Rabelais. Liebling, a secular New York Jew, was fascinated by the history of Christian controversy – how Baptists got to be Baptists, among other things – but he disliked it when Mitchell in his cups would deliver mock ...”