Ronsard is considered one of France's greatest love poets, yet his poetic achievements are not restricted to his verses of love, wine and nature.  A true Renaissance figure, his themes ranged from politics, science and philsophy, to the bawdy and risqué.  Using Greco-Roman and Italian poetic models, and drawing on the rich images of classical mythology, Ronsard revolutionised the tradition of French poetry.   In the 20th century, Ronsard's poetry was influential for W. B. Yeats, translated by Sylvia Plath, and illustrated by Henri Matisse.  He stands as one of the most innovative and diverse voices in the history of European poetry.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Selected poems (Athlone Renaissance library)

Literature & Fiction

Ronsard, Pierre De

Poetry

Athlone Press

Pierre de Ronsard: Textes choisis et commentés par Pierre Villey (French Edition)

Adamant Media Corporation

Poemes (Blackwell's French Texts)

Barbier, Andre

Blackwell*publishers

Ronsard

Manchester University Press

Sonnets Pour H±El`Ene

History & Criticism

Hyperion Pr

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Selected Poems of Pierre de Ronsard; Chosen by St. John Lucas

Lucas, St. John

World Literature

Legare Street Press

Les Amours de Ronsard, version de 1552.    Les Amours de Cassandre est un recueil de poèmes en décasyllabes de Pierre de Ronsard de 1552. Ronsard fixe les règles du sonnet : deux quatrains où alternent rimes masculines et rimes féminines suivis de deux tercets dont les rimes sont disposées de manière conventionnelle.  Cassandre Salviati (1530-1607) est la fille de Bernardo Salviati, un des banquiers de François Ier. Cassandre est une jeune fille italienne rencontrée par le poète le 21 avril 1545 à Blois à un bal de la cour.  Elle n'a que quinze ans et lui vingt et un. Ronsard ne pouvait épouser la jeune fille, car il était clerc tonsuré. Cassandre épousa Jean Peigné, seigneur de Pray l'année suivante. Il fait de Cassandre son égérie, célébrant un amour tout imaginaire dans un style précieux avec comparaisons mythologiques et mignardises.    Sections:  - Qui voudra voir comme un Dieu me surmonte  - Dans le serein de sa jumelle flamme  - Ces liens d'or, cette bouche vermeille  - Ores l'effroi et ores l'espérance  - Par un destin dedans mon cœur demeure  - Avant le temps tes temples fleuriront  - Je voudrais bien richement jaunissant  - Ce beau corail, ce marbre qui soupire  - Si mille oeillets, si mille liz j'embrasse  - Ange divin, qui mes plaies embaume  - Ô doux parler, dont l'appât doucereux  - Comme un chevreuil, quand le printemps destruit  - Ny voir flamber au point du jour les roses  - Dedans des Prez je vis une Dryade  - Ciel, air et vents, plains et monts découverts  - Petit nombril, que mon penser adore  - Si seulement l'image de la chose  - Bien que les champs, les fleuves et les lieux    Ce texte est disponible en version imprimée et livre numérique. La version livre numérique est disponible gratuitement au format Kindle avec l'achat de la version papier.

Les Amours (French Edition)

Romance

Paranormal

Independently published

Renaissance and Medieval Studies 
Series Editor: Charles Ross\nThis is a verse-translation of a sixteenth-century French poet who is considered one of the greatest of all Renaissance lyric poets. The translation endeavors to capture and convey the intensity, passion, and musicality of Ronsard's verse. The book includes an introduction, which discusses Ronsard's classical orientation and his poetic engagements as well as the translation process. The translations include explanatory notes. The French text is included en face.\nEric MacPhail, author of Religious Tolerance from Renaissance to Enlightenment: Atheist's Progress 
"Hailed as the Prince of Poets of the French Renaissance, Pierre de Ronsard composed a rich body of love poetry that has captivated audiences and challenged scholars for many centuries through its undulating, liquid forms and powerful metamorphic imagination. Blending oneiric fantasy and mythological profusion . . . this poetry appeals to readers steeped in the classical tradition and receptive to an esthetic of vitality and abundance rather than the brooding self-pity more characteristic of Petrarchism. This new translation captures the essence of a poetic legacy whose exuberance and emotion can still be deeply felt today."\n-Terence Cave, Emeritus Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Research Fellow, St John's College 
"Ronsard is a towering figure in the history of European poetry, but his work is little read these days other than in the form of single-line quotations. Henry Weinfield has made a substantial selection that reflects different aspects of Ronsard's immense output from his earliest love-sonnets to his death-bed meditations. Translating sixteenth-century French poetry into English verse while remaining close to the original is a formidable task, but Weinfield's sensitivity and ingenuity are equal to the challenge: he has found an idiom which both retains the flavor of the Renaissance and remains fluent and transparent to modern ears. The French text is provided on facing pages so that even those unfamiliar with early modern French will be able to explore the original. This is an important act of cultural transference that will give Ronsard's extraordinary poetic imagination a new lease of life for readers of the twenty-first century."\n- Paul Auster, Editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry 
"First came Henry Weinfield's irreplaceable versions of Mallarmé in 1994, and now comes a second masterpiece of translation with this new selection of Ronsard. Weinfield has a supernatural talent for rendering the most difficult poets into clear, cadenced, and beautiful English. The man is a wizard."\nAbout the Translator 
Henry Weinfield is Professor Emeritus of Liberal Studies and English at the University of Notre Dame, where he taught from 1991 to 2019. In 2018 he received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts to complete this translation.

The Labyrinth of Love: Selected Sonnets and Other Poems (Renaissance and Medieval Studies) (English and French Edition)

Parlor Press

This is a title in the Bristol Classical Press French Texts series, in French with English notes, vocabulary and introduction. This anthology of poems by Pierre de Ronsard contains light poetry, such as witty love poems and Horatian inspired poems on the joys of nature, as well as philosophical and meditative poetry. The introduction situates Ronsard in his literary and historical context, and the notes give the modern reader help in appreciating a 16th-century text.

Ronsard: Poèmes (French Texts)

Bristol Classical Press

Product Description Rare book From the Back Cover Ronsard (1524-1585) est resté, malgré lui, le poète des Amours Mais les Œuvres complètes possèdent une ampleur qui frappe au premier coup d'oeil. La poésie amoureuse n'a jamais étouffé ni la poésie lyrique, ni la grande rêverie cosmologique, ni même l'inspiration militante des Discours des misères de ce temps. Ronsard ne cessa en fait de rechercher une poésie totale dont le modèle classique et renaissant était l'épopée. De cette ambition naquit La Franciade, qui demeura inachevée : le siècle de Charles IX et d'Henri III n'était pas celui d'Auguste. About the Author Né en Vendômois en 1524, Pierre de Ronsard est le poète le plus connu de la Pléiade. D'abord destiné à une carrière militaire et diplomatique, atteint d'une surdité subite, il devient humaniste et poète. Il sera proclamé "Prince des poètes". Il meurt à Saint-Cosme-les-Tours en 1585.

Oeuvres Completes

Genre Fiction

Schoenhofs Foreign Books

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