François de Malherbe

François de Malherbe (1555 - October 16, 1628) was a French poet, critic and translator.

Bibliography

The chief authorities for the biography of Malhérbe are the Vie de Malhérbe by his friend and pupil Racan, and the long Historiette which Tallemant des Réaux has devoted to him. The standard edition is the admirable one of Ludovic Lalanne (5 vols., Paris, 1862-1869). Of the poems only, there is an excellent and handsome little issue in the Nouvelle collection Jannet (Paris, 1874). Of modern works devoted to him, La Doctrine de Malhérbe, by G Brunot (1891), is not only the most important but a work altogether capital in regard to the study of French language and literature. Others are A Gastó, La Jeunesse de Malhérbe (1890); V Bourrienne, Points obscurs dans la vie normande de Malhérbe (1895); and the duc de Broglie's "Malhérbe" in Les Grands écrivains français. On his position in French and general critical history, George Saintsbury's History of Criticism, vol. ii., may be consulted.

Related Topics:
Racan - Tallemant des Réaux - George Saintsbury

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