Elegies

by Jean Doublet, edited by Helene Hote

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Extent: 257 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies

Series: Textes de la Renaissance

Series volume number: 183

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(May 2013)

ISBN: 9782812409486

Price: $41.00

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Published in 1559, Jean Doublet’s collection is made up of twenty-six elegies and various rhymes. The elegiac intentions of the poet speak of two concerns : one national, his poetry aligning with thePleiademovement, and one regional, in its defence of the culture of Normandy.

  • By (author) Jean Doublet
  • Edited by Helene Hote

Review - French Publie en 1559, le recueil de Jean Doublet est compose de vingt-six elegies originales, ainsi que d'epigrammes et rimes diverses. La proposition elegiaque du poete dieppois, qui chante les louanges de sa bien-aimee Sibille, revet un double interet : un interet national, dans la mesure ou sa poesie s'inscrit dans la mouvance de la Pleiade, et un interet regional par la defense de la culture normande et des themes qui y sont associes.