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Pierre de Ronsard
Pierre de Ronsard , 1524-1585, French poet. As page, then squire, Ronsard seemed destined for a career at court both in France and abroad. However, deafness turned him to a more secluded and studious life at the Collège de Coqueret where he became leader of the Pléiade (see under Plei... Read more
Jan van der Noot
Jan van der Noot , b. 1539 or 1540, d. 1595?, Flemish poet. He wrote sonnets, odes, and other pieces in imitation of Petrarch and especially of Ronsard. ... Read more
alexandrine
alexandrine , in prosody, a line of 12 syllables (or 13 if the last syllable is unstressed). Its name probably derives from the fact that some poems of the 12th and 13th cent. about Alexander the Great were written in this meter. In French, rhyming couplets of two alexandrines of equal length, usual... Read more
Jean Jules Jusserand
Jean Jules Jusserand , 1855-1932, French diplomat and author, b. Lyon. After service in London, Constantinople, and Copenhagen, he was ambassador to the United States (1902-25). A close friend of every U.S. President during the period, he did much to promote friendly Franco-American relations and to... Read more
ode
ode elaborate and stately lyric poem of some length. The ode dates back to the Greek choral songs that were sung and danced at public events and celebrations. The Greek odes of Pindar, which were modeled on the choral odes of Greek drama, were poems of praise or glorification. They were arranged in... Read more
lyric
lyric in ancient Greece, a poem accompanied by a musical instrument, usually a lyre. Although the word is still often used to refer to the songlike quality in poetry, it is more generally used to refer to any short poem that expresses a personal emotion, be it a sonnet, ode, song, or elegy. In earl... Read more
French literature
French literature writings in medieval French dialects and standard modern French. Writings in Provençal and Breton are considered separately, as are works in French produced abroad (as at Canadian literature, French ). Medieval Literature Until the 12th cent. AD most forms of wri... Read more
Renaissance
Renaissance [Fr.,=rebirth], term used to describe the development of Western civilization that marked the transition from medieval to modern times. This article is concerned mainly with general developments and their impact in the fields of science, rhetoric, literature, and music. For a discussion... Read more

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Pierre de Ronsard
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Pierre de Ronsard 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 Poissonnie‧re on Sept. 11, 1524...
Ronsard, Pierre de
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Ronsard, Pierre de (1524–85) French poet and leader of the Pléiade . His Odes (1550...Hélène (1578), some of his finest love poems. http://www.sonnets.org/ronsard.htm
French literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...literature—François Rabelais , Pierre de Ronsard , and Michel Eyquem de Montaigne —towered over a host...of Éstienne Jodelle and Robert Garnier . The poet Ronsard and the six poets known collectively as the Pléiade...
Joachim du Bellay
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...poet Joachim du Bellay (ca. 1522-1560) was second only to Ronsard in his mastery of 16th-century poetic forms and showed an...and Du Bellay soon left for Paris to study along with Pierre Ronsard and Jean Antoine de Baïf under the great Jean Dorat...
ode
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...forms. During the Renaissance the ode was revived in Italy by Gabriello Chiabrera and in France most successfully by Ronsard. Ronsard imitated Pindar in odes on public events and Horace in more personal odes. Horatian odes also influenced the 17th...
John Fowles
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...history. It was not until Fowles was in his early 20s that he began his writing career. After translating a poem by Pierre de Ronsard he was able to overcome that fear of self expression that he once suggested is common to all Englishmen. Fowles' first serious...
Pierre Lescot
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...in Paris of a family sufficiently prosperous to provide him with an education in the liberal arts, for the poet Pierre de Ronsard, a fellow courtier, recorded that Lescot had a natural talent for painting and that he had studied mathematics and architecture...
Gérard de Nerval
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...It was a nostalgic recounting of his happy years. It also contained the Odelettes, early poems in the manner of Pierre de Ronsard. Nerval then published his best and most famous story, Sylvie, in the Revue des deux mondes. In this tale he explored the...
lyric
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...poetry achieved its most finished form in the sonnets of Petrarch, Shakespeare, Spencer, and Sidney and in the short poems of Ronsard, Ben Jonson, John Donne, Herrick, and Milton. The romantic poets emphasized the expression of personal emotion and wrote...
Jean Jules Jusserand
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...scholar; his works include English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages (tr. 1889), Shakespeare in France (1898), a life of Ronsard (1913), and With Americans of Past and Present Days (1916), the first work on U.S. history to be awarded a Pulitzer...

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Skira, Albert
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...seven years on Florilège des Amours de Ronsard (Anthology of the Amours of Ronsard), from the initial agreement in 1941 to publication...tinted paper, illustrating the love poems of Ronsard. By this time Skira was publishing books on...
Berkeley, (Sir) Lennox (Randall Francis)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...the Dark , ch., str. (1967); Magnificat (1968); 4 Ronsard Sonnets , Set 2, ten., orch. (1963, also with chamber...The Lowlands of Holland (1947); 3 Greek Songs (1951); 4 Ronsard Sonnets Set 1, 2 ten. (1952, rev. 1977); 5 Poems of...
Menilmontant
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Nadia Sibirskaia (Younger sister ); Yolande Beaulieu (Elder sister ); Guy Belmont (Young man ); Jean Pasquier; Maurice Ronsard. Publications Articles: Sitney, P.A., "The Idea of Abstraction," in Film Culture (New York), no. 63/64, 1977...
Nicot, Jean
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...son of a court clerk, he studied letters at Nimes, his native city, then at Paris, where he became a friend of the poet Ronsard. He was admitted to the king ’ s household and took charge of charters. As councillor to the king he was sent on...
Peletier, Jacques
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...devoted his life to poetry and science. Peletier shared with the Pleiade, a group of seven poets whose leader was Pierre de Ronsard, a desire to create a French literature. He also stated that French was the perfect instrument for the sciences and planned...
Honegger, Arthur
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...Milhaud) (1937); concerto da camera, fl., ca., str. (1948); Monopartita (1951).VOICE AND ORCH.: Chanson de Ronsard , with fl. and str. (1924); 3 Chansons populaires (1926).CHORAL: Cantique des Cantiques (1926); Les Cris du Monde...
Nostradamus, Michael (Latinized Form of Nostredame, Michel De
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...40), and on 27 June 1558 dedicated to King Henry II centuries VII1-X (issued posthumously in 1568). In 1560 Pierre de Ronsard (1524 – 1585), prince of poets and poet of princes, aligned himself with Nostradamus: By the ambiguous words...
Ravel, (Joseph) Maurice
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...xE9;phane Mallarmé , v., chamber ens. (1913); 2 Mélodies hébraïques (1919); Ronsard à son âme (1924); Chansons madécasses , v., fl., vc., pf. (1926); Don Quichotte...
Bertrand, Anthoine de
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Bertrand, Anthoine de ( b Fontanges, Auvergne, c. 1540; d Toulouse, c. 1580). Fr. composer. Comp. notable 4-part settings of Ronsard Sonnets, using half-modal, half-tonal harmonic idiom.
Schmitt, Florent
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...poem 1910).VOICE(S) & ORCH.: Psalm 47 (46 in Vulgate), sop., ch., orch. (1904); 4 Poèmes de Ronsard (1940).CHAMBER MUSIC: pf. quintet (1901–8); vn. sonata (1918–19); sax. qt. (1943...

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Sara Sturm-Maddox. Ronsard, Petrarch, and the Amours.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Annali d'Italianistica; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; Sara Sturm-Maddox. Ronsard, Petrarch, and the Amours. Gainesville...significant study concerns primarily three of Ronsard's poetic clusters: Les Amours (1552...the relation between Petrarch's and Ronsard's poetry goes well beyond the linguistic...
"Sans plus partir de France" : Ronsard et l'ecriture du voyage.
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Les plus perspicaces des biographes de Ronsard n'ont pas manque de souligner que le...preface de sa monographie, rappellent que Ronsard, de par son statut de courtisan attache...voyages perilleux en Grande-Bretagne, Ronsard semble avoir eprouve une lassitude a l...
The combative text: Ronsard's poetics of dissent (1562-1563).(Pierre de Ronsard's political poetry)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review; 3/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; In his introduction to Ronsard's political poetry of 1562-63...Laumonier argues. That is, in these poems Ronsard was defending his right to request and...to address in this essay. How does Ronsard's construction of the personal in...
Ronsard's Contentious Sisters: The Paragone Between Poetry and Painting in the Works of Pierre de Ronsard.(Review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2000; ; 700+ words ; Roberto Campo. Ronsard's Contentious Sisters: The Paragone...and Painting in the Works of Pierre de Ronsard. (North Carolina Studies in the Romance...constitutes the first full-length study of Ronsard's poems in terms of the Renaissance...
When you are old: projecting age in Petrarch's "Se la mia vita da l'aspro tormento," Ronsard's "Quand vous serez bien vieille" and Yeats's "When You Are Old".(Francesco Petrarch, Pierre de Ronsard and W.B. Yeats)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Annali d'Italianistica; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...sixteenth-century French poet Pierre de Ronsard's "Quand vous serez bien vieille...the sixteenth-century poet Pierre de Ronsard is well documented; since Olivier de...him "le Petrarque Vandomois" in 1554, Ronsard has often been called the "French Petrarch...
Pierre de Ronsard.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; Francois Rouget. Pierre de Ronsard. Bibliographie des Ecrivains Francais...to come. The most recent volume on Ronsard, prepared with immense care and erudition...sections are devoted to editions of Ronsard's works--including all extant...
Ronsard & Muret: Les Amours, leurs Commentaires. Texte de 1553.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; Ronsard & Muret: Les Amours, leurs Commentaires...at the discovery of a 'new edition' of Ronsard's Les Amours. The novelty of this edition...Martin provide full annotations to both Ronsard's poems and Muret's commentaries...
Rich rhyme: acoustic allusions in Ronsard's Amours.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: French Forum; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...detect the role of echo and allusion in Ronsard's Amours of 1552-53 as they exploit...has studied the status of allusion in Ronsard's love poetry in the light of Marc Antoine...problem of poetic identity. As we shall see Ronsard explores these problems in part through...
Du palais au jardin: L'architecture des odes de Ronsard.
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review; 1/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...aujardin, l'architecture des odes de Ronsard. By Doranne Fenoaltea. Geneva: Droz...intricate study of the architectonics of Ronsard's first four books of Odes written in...the poetic imagination of the Vendomois Ronsard vie for the king's attention in an effort...
Madeleine de l'Aubespine: life, works, and auto-mythography: an exchange with Ronsard, ca. 1570-80.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: French Forum; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; In 1587, the posthumous printing of Ronsard's Amours diverses included for the first...That poem is one of the very few in Ronsard's ceuvre where he praised a woman for...compared herself to Phaeton, and called Ronsard "her Apollo" (7). (4) Ronsard...