The French poet Joachim du Bellay (ca. 1522-1560) was second only to Ronsard in his mastery of 16th-century poetic forms and showed an arresting talent for satire and simplicity.Joachim du Bellay was ...
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In the first essay below, Griffin illustrates Du Bellay's contributions to the structure of French poetry. In the second, he conducts a detailed exploration of Du Bellay's Les Antiquitez...
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In the first of the following three essays, Keating explores the events surrounding Du Bellay's composition of Le Deffence Et Illustration De La Langue Françoyse, as well as its impact u...
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In the essay which follows, Della Neva explores the possible influences upon two of Du Bellay's works
As literary historians have often pointed out, two of Joachim Du Bellay's earlies...
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In the essay below, MacPhail casts several of Du Bellay's works in the light of the political climate of Renaissance-era Europe.
We ordinarily associate nationalism with the political and cu...
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In this essay, Schwartz studies the allegorical and mythical aspects of two of Du Bellay's works.
Critical response to the Regrets has typically been praise of the small number of masterpiec...
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In the essay which follows, Bizer argues that Du Bellay's Les Regrets is a product of humanist tradition.
Les Regrets, a collection of sonnets composed by the poet Joachim Du Bellay during a...
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Joachim du Bellay
Critical Essay by Robert Griffin
