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Article: A Sceve Celebration: Delie 1544-1994.
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
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This attractively produced volume of essays commemorates the 450th anniversary of the first publication of Maurice Sceve's Delie, "the most intense and tightly controlled verse written in the French Renaissance" (2). Ranging widely in methodology - broadly "phenomenological," historical, intertextual, musicological, "cosmographical," grammatical, phonological, and so on - the collection demonstrates the variety of interpretative possibilities that Sceve's masterpiece can suggest to modern readers. Like most commemorative volumes, however, this one displays the unevenness that can mar a collection of conference papers. I shall limit these brief remarks to the ones I found ...
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Sceve, Maurice.
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.;
January 1, 2000 ;
386 words
... ... influence of the Italian literary renaissance into France. He is best known for his own poems, including Delie, object de plus haulte vertu [Delie, object of highest virtue] (1544), a long and sometimes obscure celebration of courtly love in ...
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