... glad the heart of man. IsrDoRE SILVER University of Connecticut Rotward, po2te de Yamozrr. Livre premier : Cassandre. By FERNANDDESONAY. Bruxelles : Palais des Academies, Publications de 1’AcadCmie Royale de langue et de...

... the Marie of tradition, a simple peasant girl of fifteen, who was supposed to offer the poet amorous consolation for the coldness of Cassandre, quite different from the girl actually portrayed by Ronsard. He finds the rustic element much slighter than others had thought it to be. He is careful...

... of information on Ronsard’s orthography (p. 22, n. 6), on the interpretation of the Bacchae of Euripides (p. 34, n. 35), on the debt of Ronsard to Marot and Lemaire (p. 53, n. 86), on Cassandre Salviati (p. 242, n. 381) ; the reproduction of the variants attains a degree of completeness...

... and hyperbole dominate the poet’s use of the sonnet form at that time, stifling true lyriasm and psychological insight and preventing him from breathing life into Cassandre: “In Amours I.. . perhaps because of the force of his commitment to imitate Petrarch, Ronsard was profoundly professional...

... of the Court Ballets for which Benserade wrote the verses and whose dates range from 1651 (Ballet de Cassandre) to 1681 (Ballet Royal du Triomphe de I’Amour.) It must be admitted that there is some tedium for the reader in the second part of the book, chiefly because of the monotonous similarity...

... of one of the most delightful collections of Renaissance amorous poetry. M. Micha begins his edition with an introduction in which he discusses various topics and problems connected with the “Amours de Marie.” He agrees with Laumonier that Sinope should not be identified with Cassandre...

... begins his edition with an introduction in which he discusses various topics and problems connected with the “Amours de Marie.” He agrees with Laumonier that Sinope should not be identified with Cassandre or Mlle de Limeuil, but he is more willing than Laumonier to admit that she may...

...- ume XXVII, 1952. Pp. viii + 127. $2.50. Denkinger, Marc. Essentials of French Prontinciation : A New Approach. With Exercises. Ann Arbor: George Wahr Publishing Co., 1952. Pp. 169. Desonay, Fernand. Ronsard : Po&e de 1’Amour. Live Premier : Cassandre. Bruxelles: AcadCmie Royale de...

...- bor : University of Michigan Press ; London : Oxford Univer- sity Press, Humphrey Milford, 1940. Fp. v+339. $4.00. FRENCH Baldenne, Fernand [ Baldensperger, Fernand]. Cassandre-l-rage- die en 3 Actes en Vers. Los Angeles : Lymanhouse, 1940. Pp. 53. Cloth...

..., the 10th or 11th of May?) or whether Cassandre was blonde or brunette or Marie surnamed for a conifer. Obviously unable, because of the restricted compass of the book, to provide an extended critical commentary, M. Lebegue nevertheless keeps the promise of his foreword by making new...

... best studies of this phase of Ronsard’s work. Although there is general agreement today as to the identity of Cassandre, Roger Sorg has challenged the accepted ideas as to the other women sung by Konsard in the Amours. In “Le Secret de Ronsard” (RHLF, XXIX [1922], 1-16...

... (June 2010) doi 10.1215/00267929-2010-001  © 2010 by University of Washington 108 MLQ June 2010 begun early, when both poets were learning their craft by composing in the Petrarchist vein (Du Bellay’s Olive [1549 – 50], Ronsard’s Amours de Cassandre...

... entrer l’amoureuse douceur Auprh d’un cceur que la rigueur emmure. (Euvres poe‘tiques, p. 103) Ronsard’s most daring (but also most dignified and mythologically so competent) eroticism would ask the last favor from Cassandre using the Danae myth. He wishes...

... in the histoires of Oroondates and Statira and Lysimachus and Par- isatis, the main and reduplicating plots of La CalprenGde’s Cassandre (1642-45), sources which Boyle employed far more extensively than Romeo and Juliet in developing the Artabanes-Parthenissa and the reduplicating Artavasdes...

..., declaring his love to Cassandre, he identifies himself with Jupiter and her with Danae, it is certainly no bookish mythology which he casts in lines full of daring vitality The most pagan natur- ism comes from the poem “Le Rencontre de Gentvre”: Sur la fin de Juillet que...

.... 180 190 .-lphra Behw’s Usc of Setting follow one another iii rapid succession. In all of these Mrs. Behn had steeped herself through voluminous reading of romances like Phara- mond, Cleopatra, Cassandre, and Le Grand Cyrus. It is not surpris- ing...

... suster, Polixene, / Cassandre, Eleyne, or any of the frape” (3.409-10). 122 TROILUS AND CRZSEYDE escapes from an unbearable situation by fainting (1086-92). One can sympathize with his discomfort at having to make up a story to explain his supposed...