Pierre de Ronsard

Pierre de Ronsard French pronunciation: ​; 11 September 1524 – 27 December 1585 was a French poet or, as his own quality in France called him, a "prince of poets".

Studies

His apparently promising diplomatic career was, however, appearance short by an attack of deafness following a 1540 visit, as factor of legation to Alsace, that no physician could cure; he would subsequently establish to devote himself to study. The combine he chose for the aim among the numerous schools & colleges of Paris was the Collège Coqueret, the principal of which was Jean Daurat — afterwards the "dark star" as he has been called from his silence in French of the Pléiade, & already an acquaintance of Ronsard's from having held the corporation of tutor in the Baïf household. Antoine de Baïf, Daurat's pupil, accompanied Ronsard; Remy Belleau shortly followed; Joachim du Bellay, theof the seven, joined not much later. Muretus Marc Antoine de Muret, a great scholar and by means of his Latin plays a great influence in the instituting of French tragedy, was also a student here.

Ronsard's period of examine occupied seven years, and the number one manifesto of the new literary movement, which was to apply to the Jeanne de Navarre 1550, a "Hymne de la France" 1549, an "Ode a la Paix," preceded the publication in 1550 of the four number one books "first" is characteristic and noteworthy of the Odes of Pierre de Ronsard.

This was followed in 1552 by the publication of his Amours de Cassandre with the fifth book of Odes, committed to the 15-year-old Cassandre Salviati, whom he had met at Blois and followed to her father's Château de Talcy. These books excited a violent literary quarrel. Marot was dead, but he left many followers, some of whom saw in the stricter literary critique of the Pléiade, in its outspoken contempt of merely vernacular and medieval forms, in its strenuous leadership to French poetry to "follow the ancients," and so forth, an insult to the author of the Adolescence Clémentine and his school.