Charles d'Orleans' English Aesthetic - The Form, Poetics, and Style of Fortunes Stabilnes (Hardcover)

New investigations into Charles d'Orleans' under-rated poem, its properties and its qualities. The compilation Fortunes Stabilnes, the English poetry Charles d'Orleans wrote in the course of his twenty-five year captivity in England after Agincourt, requires a larger lens than that of Chaucerianism, through which it has most often been viewed. A fresh view from another perspective, one that attends to form and style, as well as to the poet's French traditions, reveals a more conceptually complex and innovative kind of poetry than we have seen until now. The essays collected here reassess him in the light of recent work in Middle English studies. They detail those qualities that make his text one of the most accomplished and moving of the late Middle Ages: Charles's use of English, his metrical play, his felicity with formes fixes lyrics, his innovative use of the dits structure and lyric sequences, and finally, above all, his ability to write beautiful poetry. Overall, they bring out the underappreciated contribution made by Charles to the canon of English poetry.

General

Imprint:	D.S. Brewer
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2020
First published:	2020
Editors:	R.d. Perry (Author) • Mary-Jo Arn (Customer)
Contributors:	Ad Putter • Andrea Denny-Brown (Contributor) • B. S. W. Barootes (Contributor) • Elizaveta Strakhov (Contributor) • Eric Weiskott (Customer) • Jennifer Nuttall • Jeremy J. Smith • John A. Burrow
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	307
ISBN-13:	978-1-84384-567-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
LSN:	1-84384-567-9
Barcode:	9781843845676

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