Title: Amphion Orator
Description: 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.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Nationalism and literature, History
Places: France
People: François de Malherbe (1555-1628)
Time periods: 16th century