Lyric in the Renaissance

Moving from a definition of the lyric to the innovations introduced by Petrarch''s poetic language, this study goes on to propose a new reading of several French poets (Charles d''Orléans, Ronsard, and Du Bellay), and a re-evaluation of Montaigne''s understanding of the most striking poetry and its relation to his own prose. Instead of relying on conventional notions of Renaissance subjectivity, i...