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..., an ode by Olivier de Magny and a sonnet by Claude de Taillemont, that explicitly liken Labe to Medusa. The critic Mireille Huchon has recently argued that these assimilations of Labe to Medusa are attempts to belittle the woman writer who is ostensibly being praised. She further notes that the Medusa...

..., and one guaranteed to meet resistance from entrenched interests. Simultaneously, and most importantly for our purposes, Henri IV is waging a very public war of prestige in poetry. This is precisely why he employs Malherbe to be his poet laureate. The ode that earned Malherbe his pension singles out four...

... correctly, not to include it in his oeuvre. Voltaire's strong sense of the ludic happily infects some of his imitators; indeed, that is when they are perhaps at their most persuasive. Take the example of a seven-page poem published in quarto format, Ode sur les conquetes du Roi: Par M. de Voltaire ("La Haye...

... "poete du Roi" ; voir t.VI, p. 58 et t.VIl, p. 66. 18. Voir l'ed. citee, t.IlI, p. 184 et t.V, p. 53. 19. Ronsard dedie en 1555 ses Meslanges aJean Brinon, t.VI, p. 131. 20. Voir M. Simonin, Ope cit., p. 179. 21. Voir les Odes (1555), t.VIl, p. 81-84; voir encore les Meslanges de 1559, t.X, p. 79. 22...

... femmes : it was an unwelcome distraction from the intellectual pursuits she advocated. In Ode 3, she takes satirical aim at three images of women and contrasts them with her own preferred image of the woman as writer. 22 The first and third of these images—the woman who derives her moral and financial...

... special pleasure in new and uncommon genres, producing among other things a translation of the Anacreontic odes, a pastoral compilation, a commentary on Ronsard's second book of Amours, sacred eclogues translated from the Song of Songs, poems about assorted small objects, and a collection of poems about...

... the "niece" of the abbess whom he entreats to come live with him and be his love: 'Bele,' fet iI, 'ore est issi de mei avez fet vostre ami. Venez vus ent del tut od mei!' (287-289) ['Fair one, you have now made 368 DOLLIANN MARGARET HURTIG of me your love. Come away with me for good The maid, whose name...

... are seven," but from his better-known "Ode," where he writes, "it is not now as it has been of yore The things which I have seen I now can see no more."6 The invitation to the reader to adopt a double or transcendent perspective, an understanding that encompasses both "truths," creates yet another level...

... of the Ancients and Moderns, Deshoulières also echoes a recent, female-centric incarnation of the pet epistle: the pigeon cycle of poems exchanged by Scudéry, or Sapho, and her friends in the mid-1660s, which stage the ancient and modern debate by comparing (pseudo)Anacreon’s “Ode to a Pigeon...

... amply demonstrates by following the concrete tracks of Ronsard's publication. Rouget discusses the first "coups d'essai" in 1549, offering a meticulous examination of the differences between published versions of texts like the Hymne de France, leading through the Odes, Ronsard's writings related...

... Latinity, the end of a truly bilingual culture that had existed at least through the late fifteenth century, when Poliziano was writing his Stanze per fa giostra along with Latin odes, several decades after Leon Battista Alberti wrote De pictura as well as Della pittura. By the early 1500s, in no small...

... che ‘l tacere è bello, / sì com’ era ‘l parla colà dov’ era.” 35. “Miserere di me . . . / qual che tu sii, od ombra od omo certo!” 34. “Chi per lungo silenzio parea fioco.” 33. “Vita felix . . . et, si dicere audeam quod sentio, vita tam singularis ut ea sola vera vita sit...

.... After giving it a kiss as if it were a holy book. May it g­ od-­forbid not fall into the impure hands of the Nazis.27 Dear Jewish book with dear Jewish letters. Will I ever have the honor to hold it in my hand and read it? Now I m standing and holding it in my hand and reading it: The same poetry, which...

.... As closely bound together as they are (“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” as per Keats’s “Ode to a Grecian Urn”), at least sometimes, some of us need something else. We do look for beauty in art and literature, for elements of truth, social and personal, but at the same time, we hope to hear an echo...

... , tandis que Jules Vallès lui reproche en 1867 de « scudériser l’ordure 5 ». L’époque est à la liquidation du romantisme : le Don Juan de Byron, la chanson de Lénore , voire les Odes et Ballades de Victor Hugo, qui faisaient les délices de Théophile Gautier, de Pétrus Borel et de leurs camarades...

... Realist novels, Le Monde reel. Late in his life he turned to writing difficult, selfconscious and post-modern fiction. The same diversity appears in his poetry, which took him on a journey from Surrealism to poesie engagee (complete with wooden odes to the Soviet regime) to a reinvention of medieval...

... of February 24, 1774, announcing three odes that Gilbert had recently published, describes one of the works (his ode on the Last Judgment) as having been"crowned in Paris by the approval [/es suffrages] of all men of taste" and notes about Gilbert that he was "well known in the capital" for ahis Debut...

..., 4-11. See also Walter ()tto, The HOll1eric (;ods: The Spiritual Significance of the (;reek Religion, trans. I1oses Hadas (Boston: Beacon Press, 1954), 104-24. Note that, although the penis of the figurine is described as flaccid, the nanle Hennes conles fronl the henHs, which took the {onn...

...Daniel Maira Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Daniel Maira LE « GODMICY » D HÉLÈNE : PÉTRARQUISME SEXUEL ET VIRILITÉ RESTAURÉE Dans la préface aux Odes de 1550, Ronsard regarde d abord avec suspicion ces courtisans « qui n admirent qu un...

... ”) alludes quite patently to Pierre de Ronsard’s famous “Ode à Cassandre” (“ mignonne allons voir si la rose ”), just as the title of this sequence, “Les Amours,” points back to Ronsard’s sequence, and Bouquet’s title for the collection positions him as an heir to Ronsard, following after him ( Les Amours...