The Ladder of High Designs
Subtitle: Structure and Interpretation of French Lyric Sequence
Publisher: Univ of Virginia Pr
Published: April 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780813912714
Subjects: Poetry & poets; Sequels (Literature); Literature: Classics; French; French Poetry; History and criticism; Lyric poetry; Poetry
First sentence: Guillaume de Machaut's Remede de Fortune (Fortune's cure) (written before 1349, possibly as early as 1342) constitutes a new stage in the development of the lyric anthology in late medieval French literature, at the same time that it provides a privileged locus for investigating Machaut's reformulation of the lyric mode.