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“This stimulating new monograph focuses on the perennial problem of Marot as a transitional poet, challenging the underlying premise. . . that Renaissance poetry is inherently superior to late medieval poetry. . . . Her concluding chapter is very convincing. She rightly stresses the value of the Huizinga model of the transition from Middle Ages to Renaissance as a context in which to situate Marot and offers an excellent formulation to describe the sometimes rather strange blend of the old and new in his work: `his poetry provides what might be described as a non-confrontational model of cultural change’. If Williams herself is at times resolutely confrontational, her work is all the richer for it.” – Christine M. Scollen-Jimack, in French Studies
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