Imitations of Immortality: Du Bellay's Les Regrets, Petrarch, Horace, and Ovid.

A literary criticism of Joachim Du Bellay's 1558 collection of sonnets "Les Regrets" is presented. It explores the history of Du Bellay's criticism and his collection often thought of as a straightforward record of a unified subject, uncontaminated by artifice, imitation or social posturing. It form...

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Publicado en:Intertexts Vol. 17; no. 1/2; pp. 23 - 52
Autor principal: Miller, Paul Allen
Formato: Literary Criticism
Publicado: University of Nebraska Press Spring/Fall2013
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Sumario:A literary criticism of Joachim Du Bellay's 1558 collection of sonnets "Les Regrets" is presented. It explores the history of Du Bellay's criticism and his collection often thought of as a straightforward record of a unified subject, uncontaminated by artifice, imitation or social posturing. It formulates an alternative hermeneutic context for the poems based on the theory that "Regrets" are a self-conscious lyric collection and an imitation that allows the poet to suture the poems together.