A Light-Weight Artifice
Experimental Poetry in the 17th Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5148683 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fernand Hallyn, Roxanne Lapidus |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2/3 |
| Pages | 289 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SubStance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0049-2426 • E-ISSN: 1527-2095 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3685288 |
| OpenAlex | W2313600326 |
| Language | EN |
IN A LATIN ECLOGUE called Ecloga laurea, Jean Dorat, who supposedly introduced the vogue for anagrams in France, presents the prophetess Mantho performing a ritual. Seated on a three-legged stool, she invokes Apollo and purifies the place where the divining carmen will be brought forward: Multa rogans, Phoebumque vocans in vota secundum, Ante repurgatae mox fudit in aequore terrae. Mantho uses little squares made of poplar wood--supple wood from a tree associated with prophecy (namque arbor sortibus apta/Populus Herculea
Art · Literature · Poetry · French Literature and Poetry · Literary Analysis and Cultural Studies · Renaissance Literature and Culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |