Gaius Valerius Catullus summary

Clément Marot was one of the greatest poets of the French Renaissance, whose use of the forms and imagery of Latin poetry had a marked influence on the style of his successors. His father, Jean, was a poet and held a post at the court of Anne de Bretagne and later served Francis I. In 1514 Marot

Poetry, literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm. (Read Britannica’s biography of this author, Howard Nemerov.) Poetry is a vast subject, as old as history and