Délie, objet de plus haute vertu

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Maurice Scève
Scève’s Délie, objet de plus haute vertu (1544; “Délie, Object of Highest Virtue”) is a poetic cycle of 449 highly organized decasyllabic 10-line stanzas (dizains), rich in imagery and Platonic and Petrarchan in theme and style. “Délie” (an anagram of “L’Idée,” “The Idea”), long thought to…
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Scève’s Délie, objet de plus haute vertu (1544; “Délie, Object of Highest Virtue”) is a poetic cycle of 449 highly organized decasyllabic 10-line stanzas (dizains), rich in imagery and Platonic and Petrarchan in theme and style. “Délie” (an anagram of “L’Idée,” “The Idea”), long thought to…
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