Selected Poems

Description

From the gritty realism and resentment of Du Bellay to the lyric grace and frank eroticism of Ronsard, the poems of this volume testify to the many-faceted achievement of the two poets who, as leaders of the famous 'Pléiade' group, were crucial to the creation of a new national literature.

• This edition contains the translated verse and prose of two of major poets of sixteenth-century France - Pierre de Ronsard and Joachim du Bellay
• Contains both the modernised French poems and the English translations in one volume
• The poetry is accompanied by abundant critical material including an introduction to the texts, explanatory notes, a glossary of names and places, and an index of first lines
• The poems of this volume testify to the many-faceted achievement of the two poets who, as leaders of the famous 'Pléiade' group, were crucial to the creation of a new national literature

About the Author(s)

Du Bellay and Ronsard

Anthony Mortimer has taught at universities in Croatia, Italy, the United States, and Germany and the University of Geneva before his appointment In 1978 as Professor of English Literature at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He is a member of the Swiss Academy of the Arts and Social Sciences and In 1995-96 was Visiting Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. Most of his scholarly work has been in the field of early modern English poetry. He retired in 2006 and now lives in Geneva where his major activity is translating poetry from Italian, French, and German.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Note on the Texts
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Joachim Du Bellay
A Chronology of Pierre de Ronsard
Selected Poems
Manifestos
Explanatory Notes
Glossary of Names and Places
Index of French First Lines