George Buchanan Humanist And Reformer a Biography

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, pro Lena apologia. " OCCASIONAL POEMS AND TRAGEDIES. 119 The poem has been a puzzle to Buchanan's bio- graphers, who have wished to make of him an ardent reformer from the beginning. From its nature it cannot be analysed here ; but its title is sufficient to indicate its purport. It is, of course, a mere jeu d' esprit ; but it is a jeu d 'esprit which puts beyond question how much more, at this period of his life at least, Buchanan was the humanist than the reformer. The point of view of the ...poem is one which essentially implies the ironic and not the theological view of life ; and it would argue complete unacquaintance with the spirit of his age to draw from such a poem any injurious conclusions as to Buchanan's own manner of life. All that we are justified in inferring from such effusions of the humanists is that they claimed for themselves a licence of thought and speech over the whole of human experience which men of another type deem it wiser to renounce. It throws still further light on this strange time when we learn that the person to whom Buchanan addresses this remark- able poem, Briand de Valle'e, was a councillor of the Parliament of Bordeaux, that it was he who founded the monthly lecture on the Epistles of St.

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