Read by a limited readership of critics and connoiseurs of literary curiosities, Christofle de Beaujeu’s work has often been subject to negative judgment. “Unrestrained” or “mediocre” are the adjectives most often applied to it. Beaujeu’s major work, the collected Amours, contains a few introductory texts where the author attempts to define his expected readership by pointing out what he considers to be his virtues, while at the same time trying to justify what he himself feels will be hindrances to their understanding. The aim of this article is to inquire into the nature of these hindrances and how the poet’s vision of his art very quickly comes into conflict with the new aesthetic values emerging at the end of the sixteenth century.

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• Pais, U., (2025), "« Des vers hors de rime, et de raison » : réflexions poétiques et définition de soi dans Les Amours de Christofle de Beaujeu", HSSCommons: (DOI: )

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Original publication: Pais, Ugo. "« Des vers hors de rime, et de raison » : réflexions poétiques et définition de soi dans Les Amours de Christofle de Beaujeu." Renaissance and Reformation 42 (1): 2019. 283-302. DOI: 10.7202/1064528ar. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Renaissance and Reformation. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Renaissance and Reformation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.