{"product_id":"john-payne-vigil-john-payne-9781787802452","title":"John Payne - Vigil \u0026 Vision. New Sonnets","description":"John Payne was born on 23rd August 1842 in Bloomsbury, London.\u003cp\u003eHe began his career in the legal profession but thus was soon put to one side as he began his renowned translations of Boccaccio's Decameron, The Arabian Nights, and then the poets Omar Khayyam, François Villon and Diwan Hafez. Of the latter, who he ranked in the same bracket as Dante and Shakepeare, he said; he takes the \"whole sweep of human experience and irradiates all things with his sun-gold and his wisdom\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLater Payne became involved with limited edition publishing, and the Villon Society, which was dedicated to the poems of François Villon who was Frances' best known poet of the middle Ages and unfortunately also a thief and a murderer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e John Payne died on 11th February, 1916 at the age of 73 in South Kensington, London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Payne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1787802450\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781787802452\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Portable Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/28\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Payne","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48442579124479,"sku":"9781787802452","price":10.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d78f3cdb-241e-42de-a7b7-4e0a85a5b3d1.jpg?v=1777198339","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/john-payne-vigil-john-payne-9781787802452","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}