SOURCE: "Francois Villon," in An Introduction to the French Poets: Villon to the Present Day, revised edition, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1973, pp. 1-10.
Brereton is an English educator who has written extensively on French literature of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Here, in a revised version of an essay originally published in 1956, he praises Villon's poetic technique of combining the traditional ballade form with the modern tendency to write about highly personal subject matter.
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