...Marcel Frančon Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 THE ATTITUDE OF GfiRARD DE NERVAL TOWARD RONSARD By MARCELFRAN~ON In 1852 Nerval published a shortened version of the introduction1 which preceded his Choix...

.... If this should be the case, Professor Holmes will have been largely responsible for it. A. EMERSONCREORE University of Washington Ronsard, Prince of Poets. By MORRISBIsI~oP. New York: Oxford University Press, 1940. Pp. 253. Professor Bishop has...

...A. Emerson Creore Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 NOTES ON THE EVOLUTION OF A RONSARD SONNET “JE VOUS ENVOYE UN BOUQUET” By A. EMERSONCREORE The fine sonnet “Je vous envoye un bouquet que ma main” ap- peared...

... are thus enabled to see once more how, in 1578, Ronsard seems to seek the favor of Henri I11 by praising his sister and-as we feel justified in sup- posing-by offering one book of the Poimes to her. We think also that the two pieces which are united under the general title of “La Charite...

... oversight was noted: Dw Marlenleben, p. 255). KARLS. WEIMAR Brown University Ronsard par lui-me^me. By GILBERTGADOFFRE. Paris: “Ecrivains de tou- jours,” aux Cditions du seuil, 1960. Pp. 189. Among the works of criticism...

.... In the present volume, which is a welcome successor to M. Desguine’s work on Arcueil et les po2tes du XVIe Jibcle (Paris: Champion, 1950), lovers of Ronsard, and all those to whom the French Renaissance is a period of special interest, are offered a sumptuous gift the like of which they can hardly...

... to the authors of Greece and Rome: “Le meilleur Ronsard fut toujours celui qui ne dut rien h Pindare, rien A I’Italie, ancienne ou moderne . . .” (p. 50). Is it possible to reconcile this position with the eminently correct observation about “Mignonne allons voir si la rose,” that it contains...

... of his expression. Here M. Desonay fortifies his conviction that the true lyricism of Ronsard is to be found in the first versions. In the later editions “Nous cherchions le vates habit4 par le dieu: Nous trouvons le faber” (p. 234). There is a gain in technical precision; there is a loss...

..., but to have written his book chiefly to incite students of poetry to an intensive study of Ronsard’s work itself. The reader is grateful for his firm declaration in the Foreword that it is time to go beyond coiisiderations of the exact date of the poet’s birth (1522 or 1524, Saturday or Sunday...

... Ronrard pohte de l’amour. Livre 11: De Marie Ci Gendvre. Par FERNANDDESO- NAY. Bruxelles: Palais des Academies, 1954. Pp. 320. In his study of Ronsard podte de l’amour during the period 1555-1563, M. Desonay has achieved results no less startling than those revealed in his volume 182...

..., Société des Textes Français Modernes, 1959. Pp. xxv + 93. Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 REVIEWS Pierre de Ronsard: Euvres complites. Tome XVII, premi6re partie: Le Tombeau de Charles IX (1574); Discours au Roi (1575); Les Estoilles...

... and London: Yale University Press, Yale Romanic Stu- dies. Second Series, No. 14, 1966. x 4- 247 pp. $6.00; 45s. This book represents a break with Ronsard scholarship of the past. The representatives of “old criticism,” such as Paul Laumonier, Henri Chamard, and Joseph Vianey, venerable...

...Isidore Silver Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 RONSARD’S HOMERIC IMAGERY By ISIDORESILVER When Thetis rises like a mist from the sea in order to console her grieving son, an element of beauty is added to the narrative that could...

...Marc Bizer It had been the dream of the sixteenth-century Pléiade poets to glorify their country and literature by composing a “long French poem,” a term that designated a genre resembling epic but that also included romance. In the 1550s, not only Pierre de Ronsard, who had received an official...

... influence upon Ronsard, who had considerable respect for him, has been studied by Henry Guy in 1For~~ the purpose of this study we shall consider the term Renaissance synonymous with the sixteenth century. No important writer characteristic of this period continued his work...

... Plkiade. Par HENRICHAMARD. Paris : Didier, 1939. 2 vols. Pp. 374 and 395. It was as a student of Brunti6re at the Ecole Normale SupC- rieure that Professor Chamard became interested in the Amours of Ronsard and hence in the PlCiade. Later the Sorbonne created for him a chair...

... esprit and gracefulness by sometimes turning a distich into a genuine quatrain made up of Alexandrine lines or into a chanson with only a slight, inconspicuous change. When the vigilant servant of H61Pne de SurgPres makes it difficult for Ronsard to call at ease on this, his lady, the poet...

... the French Pléiade poets Pierre de Ronsard and Rémy Belleau, notable not only for their verse but also (especially in Ronsard’s case) for their fiercely ultra-Catholic stance during France’s religious civil wars. Similarly, in chapter 4 Hock examines Lucretius’s presence in the work of the Puritan Lucy...

... and the Muses, offering common ground instead with the irresistible powerhouse of mercantile capitalism. The conceit, however, remains largely at the level of analogy—for instance, after a summary of Jean Bodin’s theory of monopolies, “Ronsard displayed similar convictions in presenting his work to the public...

... considerably from Rabelais to Ronsard and from Montaigne to St. Francis of Sales, all of whom would be eligible for the title of humanists. French humanism has its aristocrats and its democrats,’ its philosophers and its rhetorician its nature-minded and its history-minded adherents,* its...