Guillaume de Machaut Summary

Guillaume de Machaut (ca. 1300-1377) was the greatest French composer of his century, the creator of the first complete polyphonic Mass setting, and a renowned poet.Guillaume de Machaut was born in th... Read more

In the following essay, originally published in 1954, Levarie discusses Machaut's life and work in the wider context of fourteenth-century social and political upheavals, also explaining the im... Read more

In the following essay. Manley Williams describes Machaut as a remarkably self-conscious artist, observing that the poet's awareness of his importance as an author manifested itself in his cons... Read more

In the following essay, Brownlee asserts that a careful reading of Machaut's works shows how the poet transformed himself from scribe to author and imposed his authorial awareness as a new and ... Read more

In the following excerpt, Attwood analyzes Machaut's principal works concluding that he, more than any other poet of his time, reveals his poetic ego as a purely textual, literary construct. ... Read more