The French Renaissance and Its Heritage Essays Presented to Alan Boase

Originally published in 1968 this collection of essays is authored by scholars from the UK, Europe and the U. S. A. and covers Renaissance art, prose and poetry including discussions on the work of Montaigne, Rabelais, Flaubert and Baudelaire.

1. Gide’s Essai sur Montaigne: An Assessment W. M. L. Bell 2. Rabelais: Menippean Satirist or Comic Novelist Dorothy Coleman 3. Flaubert and the Authors of the French Renaissance Alison Fairlie 4. Ramond and the École Centrale des Hautes-Pyrénéés Cuthbert Girdlestone 5. The Heptaméron Reconsidered A. J. Krailsheimer 6. The Amorous Tribute: Baudelaire and the Renaissance Tradition F. W. Leakey 7. Montaigne and the Concept of the Imagination I. D. McFarlane 8. Prose Inspiration for Poetry: J. B. Chassignet Margaret McGowan 9. Henri IV and James Vi and I J. D. Mackie 10. L’Hippolyte de Garnier et l’Hippolytus de Sénèque Odette de Mourgues 11. Les Receuils de sonnets sont-ils composes? Jean Rousset 12. ‘…ma douce fleur nouvelle’ Manfred Sandmann 13. A Discourse, for Madame de la Sablière Francis Scarfe 14. O si chèrede loin et proche A . J. Steele 15. Proper Names in Renaissance Poetry G. M. Sutherland 16. Ballad for Tenor and Vehicle F. W. Leakey 17. Questions Kenneth White