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Article: Regrets only: three poetic paradigms in Du Bellay. (Joachim Du Bellay)
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- The Romanic Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1993
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Joachim Du Bellay's Les Regrets offers several sources of interest to the alert reader. It can be read, and it often has been, as one of the most engaging and original sonnet sequences of its century, mingling the gossip and scandal of a vice-sodden city with the splenetic mood swings of its discontented poet. Or secondly it can be read as the programmatic self-exposure of a complex human subject struggling for coherence against radical disorientation, a subject caught between a crumbling feudalism and an incipient modernity. Finally, Les Regrets can be read for its various experiments with a range of rhetorical, stylistic, and existential modes which permit a ...