The poems of Master François Villon of Paris : now first done into English verse in the original forms . parL. Pissarro &* gravies par Esther Pissarro. Cette Edition eststrictevient limitie a deux cent vingt six exemplaires, dontdeux cents pour la vente. A choice specimen of book-making and already becomeintrouvable. FOREWORD poet. Compared with the few scholars who can readVillon in his archaic French there are hundreds ofcultured men and women who will never come to knowhim save in a translation. What Symonds has doneto reveal the soul of poetry with a depth of humanpassion unsuspected almos
The poems of Master François Villon of Paris : now first done into English verse in the original forms . parL. Pissarro &* gravies par Esther Pissarro. Cette Edition eststrictevient limitie a deux cent vingt six exemplaires, dontdeux cents pour la vente. A choice specimen of book-making and already becomeintrouvable. FOREWORD poet. Compared with the few scholars who can readVillon in his archaic French there are hundreds ofcultured men and women who will never come to knowhim save in a translation. What Symonds has doneto reveal the soul of poetry with a depth of humanpassion unsuspected almost, in the period covered byhis Medieval Latin Student Songs, that Payne hasaccomplished in his present researches. Throughthese studies and the version of the poems, we arebrought face to face with Francois Villon and that-long vanished world of sorry men and women,wherein • our sad bad glad mad brother lived andheld his perilous way. and was at last have achieved such a rehabilitation is a work ofsupreme power, and to this work it is now time to turnour attention. PREFATORY NOTE. PREFATORY NOTE HE original version of my transla-tion of Villons Poems was madein 1874, at a time when the crit-ical study of the old poet was farfrom having reached its presentstage of comparative advance-ment ; indeed, four modern editions only (viz. thoseof M. Prompsault, 1832, M. Paul Lacroix, betterknown as Le Bibliophile Jacob, 1854 and 1866, andM. Jannet, 1867) of his works had then been pub-lished, all very incomplete and radically faulty in beingfounded mainly upon the printed texts, which areknown to be terribly garbled and corrupt, and notupon the only sound basis, namely, a minute andcritical collation of the various manuscript texts inexistence. M. Lacroixs third edition (1877) and thatof M. Moland (1879), though an improvement upontheir predecessors, added little to our knowledge ofVillon and an authoritative and definitive text of thepoems was thus still lacking at the t
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