The lines by this author written while he awaited his execution, "Brothers, men who live after us, Let not your hearts be hardened against us," are used to open Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.
One of this author's poems notes, "Necessity makes people err, And hunger drives the wolf from the woods." Two lines from one of this man's poems were adapted in a Berthold Brecht poem set to music by Hans Eisler and Kurt Weil for the work, The Roundheads and the Pointedheads. In that poem, "Nannas Lied" Brecht kept this author's interrogative but changed the time frame. The lines by this author written while he awaited his execution, "Brothers, men who live after us, Let not your hearts be hardened against us," are used to open Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Author of "Ballad of the Hanged Men," for 10 points, name this medieval French poet who wonders, "Where are the snows of yesteryear?" in "Ballad of the Dead Ladies," and wrote The Great Testament.
One of this author's poems notes, "Necessity makes people err, And hunger drives the wolf from the woods.
François {Villon}