Alain Chartier (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Traditional literary history has judged Alain Chartier’s poetry to be less important than his prose works. This evaluation is based on the fact that many of the poems are conventional, courtly creations, whereas the prose works deal with substantial moral and political issues. Modern scholars, however, have adopted a new perspective on Chartier’s poetry, seeing in it a symbolic extension of the content found in the prose works. This new approach reveals a continuity and balance in Chartier’s works.
Chartier wrote in both Latin and French. His...
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