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Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533-92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne -a collection of twenty-four new personal essays intended as tribute- aims to correct this collective lapse of memory and introduce modern readers and writers to their stylistic forebear. Though it's been over four hundred years since he began writing his essays, Montaigne's writing is still fresh, and his use of the form as a means of self-explora

American essays --- Montaigne, Michel de, --- Montagne, Michel de, --- Montenʹ, Mishelʹ, --- Montanʹe, Mikhaĭlo, --- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de, --- Montaigne, --- Montēnyu, --- Montaini, Misel d̲e, --- דה־מונטן, מישל, --- די־מונטין, מיכאל, --- מונטין, מישל דה, --- Montenj, Mišel de, --- Influence. --- de Montaigne, Michel Eyquem --- Eyquem, Michel --- Monten', Mišel'

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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, it locates recurring features of this poetic language that express a turn to the singular and that herald lyric poetry's modern emphasis on the utterly particular. By combining close textual analysis with more modern ethical concerns this study establishes clear distinctions between what poets do and what rhetoric and poetics say they do. It shows how the tradition of rhetorical commentary is insufficient in accounting for this startling effectiveness of lyric poetry, manifest in Petrarch's Rime Sparse and the collections of the best poets writing after him.

Poetry --- French literature --- anno 1500-1599 --- French poetry --- Lyric poetry --- Particularity (Aesthetics) --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Montaigne, Michel de, --- Petrarca, Francesco, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Language. --- Particularity (Aesthetics). --- Aesthetics --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- Pétrarque --- Petrarch --- Petracco, Francesco --- Petrarca, Francesco (1304-1374) --- Montagne, Michel de, --- Montenʹ, Mishelʹ, --- Montanʹe, Mikhaĭlo, --- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de, --- Montaigne, --- Montēnyu, --- Montaini, Misel d̲e, --- דה־מונטן, מישל, --- די־מונטין, מיכאל, --- מונטין, מישל דה, --- Montenj, Mišel de, --- Petrarca, Franciscus, --- Petrarch, --- Petrarch, Francesco, --- Petrarcha, Franciscus, --- Petrark, --- Petrarka, Franchesko, --- Peṭrarḳa, Frants'esḳo, --- Pétrarque, --- Петрарка, Франческо, --- פטררקא, פרנצ׳סקו --- de Montaigne, Michel Eyquem --- Eyquem, Michel --- Monten', Mišel' --- Petrarca, Francesco