Pierre de Ronsard Summary

In the following excerpt, Fallon interprets Ronsard's Sonnets pour Helene cycle, seeing the work's final theme as one concerning love sacrificed for poetry. Les Sonnets pour Helene re... Read more

In the following essay, Yandell investigates the carpe diem theme in Ronsard's poetry and its relation to the poet's dread of aging. For women are as Roses, whose faire flowre Being o... Read more

In the following essay, Desan recounts Ronsard's early attempts to make a living as a poet. The poet has always been accorded a status well set off from that of other members of society. Poe... Read more

In the following essay, Britnell probes the connection between poetic and prophetic inspiration, using Ronsard as a principal example. In the Renaissance the poet's claim to divine inspirati... Read more

In the following essay, Campo asserts that Ronsard's poem “Des peintures contenues dedans un tableau” can be interpreted “as an attack on the expressive weakness of paintin... Read more

In the following essay, Ford studies two odes by Ronsard that present erotic, mythological stories and draws allegorical and thematic parallels between both works. Throughout his poetic career, Ron... Read more

Stone is an American academic and scholar of French literature whose major works, including France in the Sixteenth Century (1969) and French Humanist Tragedy (1974), give special attention to the Ren... Read more

For anyone who is familiar with much of the recent criticism devoted to le fantastique, the idea of viewing certain poetic texts of Ronsard as examples of this genre might well seem preposterous, anac... Read more

In the following essay, Ahmed argues that in the Odes Ronsard goes beyond boundaries and rules that historically had defined poetry and the poet. Et faictes que toujours j'espieD'oei... Read more

An English scholar of French Renaissance literature, Cave is the author of Devotional Poetry in France (1969) and The Cornucopian Text: Problems of Writing in the French Renaissance (1979). In the ess... Read more

In the following excerpt, Hanisch discusses the defining characteristics of Ronsard's early elegies. In the first posthumous edition of Ronsard's works, published in 1587, the book of... Read more

When we read the early love-sequences of the Pléiade, notably Du Bellay's Olive (1549-50), Pontus de Tyard's Erreurs amoureuses (1549) and Ronsard's Amours (1552), we shall... Read more

In the following excerpt, Langer traces Ronsard's treatment of death in "A Philippes des-Portes Chartrain," "Hymne de la mort," and the poems of Les derniers vers de... Read more