Selected Poems

by RONSARD, Anthony Mortimer, Du Bellay

'Live now and listen, do not wait in vain
Until tomorrow; pluck life's rose today.'

Joachim du Bellay and Pierre de Ronsard are two of the major sixteenth-century French poets and leaders of the extraordinary group known as 'La Pl iade'. Determined to create a national vernacular literature, the Pl iade poets profited from an intense study of Greek and Roman models and from a creative use of classical mythology to produce...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192847996
• ISBN13: 9780192847997
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.7"