Charles d'Orl饌ns' English Aesthetic: The Form, Poetics, and Style of Fortunes Stabilnes (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781843845676)

New investigations into Charles d'Orl饌ns' under-rated poem, its properties and its qualities.

The compilation Fortunes Stabilnes, the English poetry Charles d'Orl饌ns wrote in the course of his twenty-five year captivity in England after Agincourt, requires a larger lens than that of Chaucerianism, through which it has most often been viewed. A fresh view from another perspective, one that attends to form and style, as well as to the poet's French traditions, reveals a more conceptually complex and innovative kind of poetry than we have seen until now.
The essays collected here reassess him in the light of recent work in Middle English studies. They detail those qualities that make his text one of the most accomplished and moving of the late Middle Ages: Charles's use of English, his metrical play, his felicity with formes fixes lyrics, his innovative use of the dits structure and lyric sequences, and finally, above all, his ability to write beautiful poetry. Overall, they bring out the underappreciated contribution made by Charles to the canon of English poetry.

Author: R. D. Perry
ISBN-10: 1843845679
ISBN-13: 9781843845676
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Language: English
Published: 09/18/2020
Pages: 307
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d