SOURCE: "The Great Testament, with the Codicil and the Lesser Poems," in Francois Villon: A Documented Survey, Coward-McCann, Inc., 1928, pp. 333-40.
Unrelated to the English author and painter Wyndham Lewis, D. B. Wyndham Lewis was a prominent English essayist, humorist, historian, and biographer. In the following excerpt, he defends Villon's poetry as high art of the most accomplished sort.
