Jean Mambrino Orphée

( Valéry). Synthèse: Les grands rhétoriqueurs ou la poésie formelle. Repères préliminaires. Epoque: Seconde moitié du XVème siècle et début du XVIème. Grandes figures: Georges Chastellain, Jean Meschinot, Jean Molinet, Jean Marot, Jean Lemaire de Belges Origines: Les cours de Bourgogne, de Bretagne, de France. Poètes officiels, qui pratiquent l'éloge du prince et la poésie de circonstance. Situation périlleuse pour l'épanouissement du génie poétique qui

– though no text was sacrosanct, a finished creation, but an exploitable resource. Any work could be continued, augmented and even buried beneath the weight of new accretions. Le Roman de la Rose was begun by Guillaume Lorris, but became the work of Jean de Meun, who expanded it beyond recognition. By projecting the vision of the rose garden as his own dream, Lorris set an early example of how a narrator might be identified with an author. In the same way, the first person dits which emerged in the late