Possible Clues:

• Our bard out to reform lyrical poet
• Medieval lyric poet
• Mediaeval singer-poet
• Gold's back in Bath, a grim old entertainer
• Sounds right wicked, our love poet
• French medieval lyric poet
• Outing to take in endlessly dissolute chap and awful singer
• Genuine-sounding graduate meeting gloomy old minstrel
• Genuine-sounding bachelor, a stern composer of lyrics
• A French medieval singer-songwriter