Selected Poems
De Ronsard, Pierre E.
Quainton, Malcolm (TRN)
Vinestock, Elizabeth (TRN)
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
One of France's most influential love poets, Pierre de Ronsard embraced a variety of themes from politics, science, and philosophy to bawdy and risqué material that outraged religious reformers. Drawing on classical and Italian poetic models and on powerful imagery from ancient mythology, Ronsard created verse that revolutionized the French poetic tradition. His style ranges from the sublime rhetoric of the Pindaric odes and hymns to the lyricism and sensuality of his sonnets. Ronsard's poetry has influenced many twentieth-century writers and artists, including W. B. Yeats, Sylvia Plath, and Henri Matisse. The dual-language format of this new edition provides English-speaking readers with an enhanced perspective on one of the most innovative voices in the history of European poetry.
AUTHOR BIO
Pierrre de Ronsard (1524-1585) was the leader of the Pléiade group of poets. He is most famous for his odes and his later sonnet sequences, which were a great influence on the English sonnet writers of the sixteenth century.
Malcolm Quainton is professor of French at Lancaster University. He is the author of Distant Voices Still Heard, with John O'Brien.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0140424245
ISBN(13-digit): 9780140424249
Copyright: 2002
Dewey Decimal: 808
Book Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 304
Paper Weight (lb): 0.55
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