Introduction to Robert Guiette : “Formal Poetry in France in the Middle Ages” and “The Adventure of Formal Poetry”

Jeff Rider

doi:10.18352/relief.886

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This introduction offers a brief overview of the life and work of the early twentieth-century Flemish medieval studies scholar Robert Guiette, and presents two of his most influential pieces, “L’aventure de la poésie formelle”, and “La poésie formelle en France au Moyen Age”, in which he presented his ideas about a medieval poetry based on a formal esthetic.

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TO ROBERT GUIETTE: “Formal Poetry in France in the Middle Ages” and “The Adventure of Formal Poetry”RELIEF 8 (1), 2014 – ISSN: 1873-5045
Thirty-six years after his death, Guiette is probably most remembered for a series of articles, lectures and essays written between 1946 and 1970, mostly on medieval literature, that he brought together in two volumes of the Romanica Gandensia series under the title of Questions de Littérature
Perhaps the most influential of these pieces were two lectures Guiette gave at the beginning of 1946 entitled “D’une poésie formelle en France au Moyen Age” (“Formal Poetry in France in the Middle Ages”) and “Aventure de la poésie formelle” (“The Adventure of Formal Poetry”) (1960, 9-23; 24-32)

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TO ROBERT GUIETTE: “Formal Poetry in France in the Middle Ages” and “The Adventure of Formal Poetry”RELIEF 8 (1), 2014 – ISSN: 1873-5045. Guiette died in Antwerp on November 8, 1976.

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