In the Châtelet
Jeremy Harding, 20 April 1995
François Villon: Complete Poems
edited by Barbara Sargent-Bauer.
Toronto, 346 pp., £42, January 1995,0 8020 2946 9 Show More
edited by Barbara Sargent-Bauer.
Toronto, 346 pp., £42, January 1995,
Basil Bunting: Complete Poems
edited by Richard Caddel.
Oxford, 226 pp., £10.99, September 1994,0 19 282282 9 Show More
edited by Richard Caddel.
Oxford, 226 pp., £10.99, September 1994,
“... lines long, prompted by a jilting and ending with a parody of Aristotelian composure. In 1457, Guy Tabarie, one of Villon’s accomplices, was remanded in connection with the robbery and supplied names to the authorities, but Villon was already out of reach. After a few years wandering in the provinces he was detained in Meung for some unspecified ... ”