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Francois Villon
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Francois Villon :
'After "Trilby" came the effect of "Peter Ibbetson". "It came to me", writes the poet of this book, "just when I needed an inner life". From "Peter Ibbetson" he learned of the existence of Villon and of de Musset. He read these poets but "the time was not ripe for either".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Masefield Print: Book
Francois Villon : [unknown]
'He lapped up those French writers who kicked against those conventions - Rabelais, Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud'
