« Inscrire sa mémoire aux fastes d’Hélicon » : poéthique d’André Chénier

Why did André Chénier—so concerned with intimacy that he rejected the posture of the public or published poet—print a long political poem, Le Jeu de paume, in the middle of the Revolution? And how did someone who had spoken only for himself become, under the Terror, the spokesman for victims everywhere, by taking up Virtue as his standard and addressing a future readership in verse which he could not publish?