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The lexicon and poetics from Du Bellay's Regrets (1558) in post Pléiade spiritual poetry (1560-1600).

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Starting from an advanced analysis of the lexicon dealing with suffering, which is used in the Regrets, this works aims at revealing that spiritual poets from late 16th century employ the same words and phrases but with different meanings. Indeed the regret of the homeland becomes that of sins and the exiled poet's suffering becomes that of the sinner. The main topics of the Regrets such as the passing of time and the return to the homeland are used with a different meaning and, then, a different purpose. This work aims to study the transfer of vocabulary and poetics from a secular context to a religious and penitential one; spiritual poets also use the sonnet. Finally this PhD thesis intends to define to what extent Du Bellay has influenced late Renaissance spiritual poetry.