Clément Marot and the Inflections of Poetic Voice

The relationship between the true character of Marot the man ( 1496-1544) and the assumed poses of Marot the poet-whose work does not Despite the impossibility of establishing an absolute chronology of artistic development, and although he never fully escaped from supplying pièces de circonstance, nothing is surer than his increasing awareness that poetic forms do not remain static and his evolving grasp of the resources of even socially stratified language-a grasp that allowed him to assert his literary personality. This is in no way an attempt to advance Marot as a Burkhardtian individual who stepped from the medieval shadows into the light of the Renaissance. Nor is it to support the cliché (although it is largely true) that without Marot's example Index Accius, This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.