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[Name of writer appears here] [Course name appears here] [Professor 's name appears here] [Date appears here] Marguerite De Navarre The body of works that Marguerite produced is amazing in size and range . She started writing in the 1520s and finally worked in a broad variety of forms in both verse and prose : rondeaux , ypotres , oraisons songs , spiritual meditations , dialogues , plays , as well as an unfinished collection of novellas , the Heptamyron . Her first collection of poetry was in print in 1531 under the title Le Miroir de l 'wme pycheresse
, and a few 16 years later , a perfect collection was to appear , the Marguerites de la Marguerite des Princesses (Pearls by the Pearl of Princesses ) and Suyte des marguerites de la Marguerite des Princesses (Continuation of the Pearls . Marguerite 's most noteworthy achievements can be highlighted according to the ways in which she has contributed to literary history : the contentious writer the dialogist the mystic the taleteller the playwright
Marguerite is at times celebrated as "the first mystical poet in our literature " as one to whom we owe "a scrupulous attention to the movements of consciousness , the appearance of the 'moi (self , in literature (Girard and Jung , 242 . However , her poems seldom allude to precise events in her life . Somewhat , they refer to the history of mankind , its fall through Adam 's defiance , and its salvation through Christ 's suffering on the cross . Recounting the Christian 's long chase of union with Christ , they trace the ways by which he surmounts fear and distress . The Evangelicals of Meaux with whom the queen came into contact in the 1520s exercised a deep influence on her thought and art her correspondence with Brizonnet , particularly , was to be a lasting source of motivation all through her later life . Henry Heller notes that "over the two decades following the collapse of the experiment at Meaux the religious thought of Marguerite was affected successively to some degree by the influence of Luther , Calvin , and the Spiritual Libertines (281
The Prisons , Marguerite 's longest poem , most likely composed after Francis 's death , reads like a confession recounting the queen 's ethical intellectual , and spiritual evolution . It concerns a third-person male poet who moves consecutively from a prison of stone (the prison of earthly love ) to , ironically , one of freedom (that of worldly ambition to a superb white-walled temple (the prison of human knowledge , and ultimately , by divine revelation through the Scriptures , to union with God . In every instance , it is love that guides to the poet 's incarceration , and it is love of a higher form that leads to a conversion , setting him free to follow his journey upward . This poem reveals Marguerite 's philosophic passion and her renewed interest in Platonic doctrines , which she discovers consonant with Christian teachings . But it as well exposes her inner contradictions , her keenness for knowledge and beauty (the promises of a new age , as well as her fortitude to renounce everything detrimental to contemplative life
The Heptamyron was the...
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