Pierre Ronsard (1524 – 1585) French Naturalist and Poet
Pierre Ronsard transformed his life from one of possible anguish into one in which he created a legacy that has lasted for centuries. B...
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Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585) was the greatest French poet of his day. His verse influenced French poetry well into the 17th century.Pierre de Ronsard was born at La Poissonnière on Sept. 11, 1...
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In the following essay, Rigolot examines Ronsard's theory of poetic mimesis as it is expressed in the prefaces to the Franciade.
“I could find no more excellent subject than this one&...
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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...
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In the following essay, Randall describes the trangressive and pornographic qualities of Ronsard's Livret de folastries.
I. Making Free with the Text: Ronsard, La Fontaine and a Voice from Vi...
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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...
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In the following excerpt, Ford observes the sources, themes, and stylistic developments of Ronsard's early hymns.
Les Hymnes sont des Grecs invention premiere.
(Ronsard, L. XVIII. 263. 1...
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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...
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In the following essay, Donaldson-Evans discusses the element of fantasy in Ronsard's poetry.
For anyone who is familiar with much of the recent criticism devoted to le fantastique, the idea...
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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...
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In the following essay, Ahmed argues that in the Odes Ronsard transgresses the spatial boundaries that had hitherto defined poetry.
Et faictes que toujours j'espie D'oeil veillant les...
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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...
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In the following essay, Nash considers Ronsard's poetics of “seeing and showing” what is imagined and ineffable, as opposed to that of which is simply real.
In his latest study...
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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...
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In the following essay, Campo explores Ronsard's conception of the superiority of poetry over painting, as part of an on-going Renaissance debate concerning this matter.
Critics have paid co...
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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...
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In the following essay, Gilman describes some of the onomastic strategies that Ronsard employs in order to represent and unite his vision of love and poetic creativity.
In his final sonnet sequence...
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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...
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In the essay below, Braybrook reassesses the episodic, fragmented quality of the narrative of Ronsard's La Franciade.
La Franciade was Ronsard's only attempt at a full length epic. In...
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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...
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Richmond is an English critic. In the following essay, he examines Ronsard's influence on the major English Renaissance poets, particularly John Donne, William Shakespeare, and Andrew Marvell.
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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...
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In the essay below, de Mourgues offers a stylistic and thematic analysis of Ronsard's later work.
The first ten years in Ronsard's poetic production are so rich and so varied that the...
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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...
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In the following excerpt, Quainton examines the treatment of flux and stability in Ronsard's poetry.
[The] twin concepts of flux and stability represent an important and continuing source of...
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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...
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McGowan is an English academic and scholar who has published works on Michel de Montaigne's Essays, Jean Racine's dramas, and the ballet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France. Bel...
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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...
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