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French poet, critic, and translator (1555–1628)
Also known as: Франсуа де Малерб, فرنسوا دي ماليرب, 프랑수아 드 말레르브, フランソワ・ド・マレルブ, 弗朗索瓦·德·马莱伯, Малерб
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Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan1589–1670ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetMalherbe's direct disciple, writing pastoral and religious verse with the same pure, regular classical diction. (AI reason)
François Maynard1582–1646ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetAnother Malherbe disciple, known for polished, tightly structured odes and epigrams in the reformed style. (AI reason)
Philippe Desportes1546–1606ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetElegant courtly lyric of the late Renaissance that forms the backdrop to Malherbe's reforms. (AI reason)
- Jean de Sponde1557–1595ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
Late sixteenth-century meditations on death and constancy in grave, formal sonnets and stances. (AI reason)
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux1636–1711ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetCodifies the classical doctrine of clarity and rule-bound verse that Malherbe pioneered. (AI reason)
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Pierre de Ronsard1524–1585ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetGrand odes and courtly occasional verse of the French Renaissance tradition Malherbe revised. (AI reason)
Théophile de Viau1590–1626ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetContemporary lyric poetry of early seventeenth-century France, with odes and elegies in a freer counterpoint style. (AI reason)
- Mathurin Régnier1573–1613ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
Verse satires engaging the same literary debates of the era, opposing Malherbe's strict poetics. (AI reason)
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac1597–1654ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetCarries Malherbe's ideal of purity and measured eloquence into French prose letters. (AI reason)
Vincent Voiture1597–1648ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetRefined salon verse and letters of early French classicism with polished, regular form. (AI reason)
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- Œuvres de Malherbe (1862)
- Traduction de vers cités par Sénèque
- Povr le Roy allant chastier la rebellion des Rochelois et chasser les Anglois (1628)
- Le bouquet des fleurs de Sénèque
- Les poésies