Mannerism and Baroque in Seventeenth-Century French Poetry (English, James Crenshaw Shepard)

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This book examines mannerism and baroque in the poetry of Tristan L'Hermite, a leading lyric poet of the seventeenth century. After presenting a history of scholarship on both the mannerist and baroque styles, James Shepard offers a definition of each as it applies to seventeenth-century lyric poetry. He then turns to Tristan's works, examining the poems contained in the Plaintes d'Acante et autres ouvres , Les Amours , La Lyre , and the Vers h�r…

ISBN: 9780807892732