Avril

by Hilaire Belloc

Overview

Explore the rich tapestry of French Renaissance poetry with H. Belloc's "Avril: Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance." This collection delves into the heart of French literature during a pivotal era, offering insightful criticism and analysis of the period's most significant poets. Belloc's essays illuminate the unique characteristics of Renaissance verse, providing a valuable resource for students and enthusiasts of literary history. A respected voice in literary criticism, Belloc brings a keen eye to the nuances of French poetic form and expression. "Avril" provides a fascinating window into the artistic and intellectual ferment of Renaissance France, showcasing the enduring power and beauty of its literary output. A timeless exploration of a golden age, this volume is essential for anyone interested in understanding the foundations of modern French literature and the broader sweep of European cultural history.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781022988101
Publisher:	Anson Street Press
Publication date:	03/28/2025
Pages:	118
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.25(d)

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I Put down Charles of Orleans here as the first representative of that long glory which it is the business of this little book to recall: but to give him such a place at the threshold requires some apology. The origins of a literary epoch differ according as that epoch is primal or derivative. There are those edifices of letters which start up, not indeed out of nothing, but out of things wholly different. Produced by a shock or a revelation, as two gases lit will, in a sharp explosion, unite to form a liquid wholly unlike either, so after a great conquest, a battle, the sudden preaching of a creed, these primal literatures appear in an epic or a dithyrambic code of awful law. Their first effort is their mightiest. They come mature. They are allied to that element of the catastrophic which the modern world (taking its general philosophy from its social condition) denies, but which is yet at the limits of all things separate and themselves; accompanies every birth, and strikes agony into every transition of death. Those other much commoner epochs in the history of letters, which may be called derivative, have this current and obvious quality, that their beginnings merge into the soil that bred them, also (very often) their decay willlapse imperceptibly into newer things. They are quite definite, but also definitely parented. We know their special stuff and harmony, but we can point out clearly enough the elements which formed that stuff, the tones which unite in that harmony. We can show with dates and citations the parts meeting and blending; our difficulty is not to determine the influences which have mixed to make the general school, but rather to fix the beginning and theend of its effect upon men. In the first of these the leader, sometimes the unique example of the ...