... into the heart of the work. Both writers demonstrate acute metaliterary sensibility, and respectable training in classical and medieval theories of rhetoric and poetry. Gilles defends his choice to write in verse through a constellation of metaphors pitting the synthetic clarity of both urine and poetry against...

...Michael Taormina Michael Taormina POETRY AND POWER: THEOPHILE'S "FRANCHISE" AND THE LIMITS OF CLIENTAGE, 1621-1623 I n 1623, Theophile de Viau is burned in effigy, then arrested and imprisoned on charges of lese-majeste divine. The catalyst for this persecution is a sonnet on the first page...

..., as Henriette died in 1993. In spite of such weaknesses, this is a very useful volume for students of Nizan and of the political, literary and ideological history of the interwar period. Research libraries should have a copy. (ADELE KING, Paris, France) Ardis Butterfield. Poetry and Music in Medieval France...

...Ernesto Livorni Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 Ernesto Livorni "IN SE DA SIMULACRO A FIAMMA VERA / ERRANDO:" UNGARETTI'S POETRY FROM BERGSON TO PLATO e tutta la mia poesia un modo platonico di sentire Ie cose, ed essa ha del resto due maestri nel campo dello spirito...

...Chimène Bateman Copyright © 2009 The Trustees of Columbia University 2009 Chimene Bateman THE LYONNAISE MEDUSA: LOUISE LABE IN THE POETRY OF OLIVIER DE MAGNY 1. Introduction Louise Labe's 1555 CEuvres appeared with a substantial appendix: a collection of twenty-four poems in her praise...

...Edward K. Kaplan Krueger , Cheryl Leah . The Art of Procrastination: Baudelaire’s Poetry in Prose . Newark, DE : University of Delaware Press , 2007 . Pp. 156 . Copyright © 2009 The Trustees of Columbia University 2009 BOOK REVIEWS ou Scheherazade illustrerait la figure...

...Jessie Hock Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 Jessie Hock WAGING LOVING WAR: LUCRETIUS AND THE POETRY OF REMY BELLEAU I n 1558 Joachim du Bellay completed the first translation of Lucretius into French, twenty-two lines from the beginning of De rerum natura (henceforth...

...Phillip John Usher Louisa Mackenzie . The Poetry of Place: Lyric, Landscape, and Ideology in Renaissance France . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2011 . Pp. 304 . Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 BOOK REVIEWS any student or scholar...

... witness to the philosophical importance of these issues: in his philosophical poem Acerba , Cecco attacks Dante’s love poetry for harboring deterministic belief. 22. See Graziosi 69–71. I disagree, however, with Graziosi’s conviction that Epistola 3 precedes Convivio 2.8, a conviction that leads...

...Francesco Marco Aresu Abstract This article hypothesizes an intertextual relationship between the literary transfiguration of Occitan troubadour Bertran de Born in Inferno 28 and a fragment of Latin poetry preserved by late antique scholars (and disputedly attributed to Roman poet Ennius...

... “capable,” like her unmarried daughter, Catherine—to consider how women negotiated the challenges of legal quarreling. It analyzes the strategies des Roches employed, in her poetry and in her published correspondence, to avoid being perceived as quarrelsome, to bind her judicially influential addressees...

... chronicle and of a set of vernacular poems situating his writerly activity within a very specific corporeal context: he writes both poetry and chronicle after cataracts have so impaired his vision that he can no longer carry out his administrative duties at the abbey of Saint-Martin—and, remarkably, he...

... between 1953 and 1966, presents a commentary on the poet's critical reception; or, more precisely, on being read and interpreted. It is frequently considered a precursor to her 'more mature' Italian language poetry,l a kind of poetic calisthenics in preparation for the 'real' event. One might argue...

... was throughout his long life a major figure of the French cultural landscape. From his well-known surrealist poetry to his cycle of socialist realist novels to the difficult postmodern works he wrote late in his life, his wildly diverse body of writing leaves no shortage of work for biographers and scholars...

... that the most significant modern verse had been written by poets who wrote in a symbolist and visionary style more or less like Yeats's own. A hard-edged war poet like Wilfred Owen, whom everyone else thought of as a towering central figure in modern poetry, did not appear in the book at all. Yeats was so...

... Riffaterre's Semiotics of Poetry is a provocative theoretical statement because it insists on the unity and autonomy of poetic discourse, separates its signifying process from others it is usually conjoined with, and assigns the poem, once it has been established to be a unique kind of sign, a privileged place...

..., therefore, so much as gloss the text instead. (Glossing an activity Leiris was quite happy to entertain elsewhere, of course.) But Aurora is having none of it. "The only way to examine poetry," he declares, "is through explications de texte" (p.7). In the context of recent Leiris criticism, this pre-emptive...

...Mark J. Mascia Mark]. Mascia TO JUDGE THROUGH VERSE: THE SONNETS OF LOPE DE VEGA'S LA CIRCE AND HIS ENGAGEMENT WITH LITERATURE I n Lope de Vega's collection of poetry, La Circe (1624), a number of sonnets offer observations on different aspects of poetry writing. The specific themes which Lope...

... la plus exacte des sciences". (MARCEL HENAFF, USCD) Maternal Echoes. Aimee Boutin. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2001 Pp.246. The initial question of Aimee Boutin's Maternal Echoes is straightforward: given the similarities between the poetry of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore...

... a cura di Fabio Sangiovanni. Longo, 2016. 230 pp. Researchers and students of the Italian poetry of the Duecento fin­ ally have a reliable complete critical edition of the poetry of Tomaso da Faenza ­poet and judge active in Faenza from the 1260s prob­ably into the early 1300s, who corresponded on topics...