Amphion Orator - Michael Taormina Taschenbuch

This new approach to Malherbe's odes interweaves political cultural rhetorical and literary history to show how they constitute a unified sequence whose ambition is to forge a new national community in the aftermath of the Wars of Religion dislodging Malherbe from his moribund critical reception as a grammarian and technician and recovering the brilliance of a poetic genius whose political mythmaking stems from an impassioned patriotism.