The solitary dreamer, the bashful lover, the repentant sinner, the inspired bard : each of these faces of the typus melancholicus helped to shape the lyric persona of early seventeenth-century poetry.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques