It excited violent dislike to Ronsard on the part of the Huguenots, who wrote constant pasquinades against him, strove ( by a ridiculous exaggeration of the Dionysiac festival at Arcueil, in which the friends had indulged to celebrate the success of the first French tragedy, Jodelle's Cleopatre ) to represent him as a libertine and an atheist, and ( which seems to have annoyed him more than anything else ) set up his follower Du Bartas as his rival.

In French, Pierre de Ronsard wrote a series of eclogues under the title Les Bucoliques, and Clément Marot also wrote in the genre.

Moulu's music was clearly influenced by Josquin, and though Pierre Ronsard wrote that Moulu studied with Josquin, no documentary evidence survives to substantiate this claim.

She wrote verses about her cat Léonore ( also the name of Montaigne's daughter ) and Joan of Arc, adapted Ronsard, wrote on the instruction of princes, and criticized the Précieuses.

In 1581, in collaboration with Baïf, d ' Aubigné and Ronsard, he wrote incidental music for the wedding of the Duke of Joyeuse and the queen's half-sister, Marie de Lorraine.

Rosa ' Eden ' | Rose cultivar ' Pierre de Ronsard ', named in reference to Ronsard's poem Ode à Cassandre ( Mignonne, allons voir si la rose ...)

In a poem in 1556 Ronsard announced that the " Brigade " had become the " Pléiade ", but apparently no one in Ronsard's literary circle used the expression to refer to himself, and use of the term stems principally from Huguenot poets critical of Ronsard's pretensions ( Ronsard was a polemicist for the royal Catholic policy ).

Although, according to a eulogistic poem by Ronsard, Pierre Lescot busied himself zealously in early youth making drawings and paintings, and, after his twentieth year, with mathematics and architecture, his wealth and the duties of his offices appear subsequently to have interfered with his artistic activity.

Written over some three decades, the alexandrine verse of this epic poem relies on multiple genres as well as stylistic familiarity with the work of the opposing, Catholic poets of the Pléïade, headed by Pierre de Ronsard.

In 16th century Portugal, Luis Vaz de Camões celebrated Portugal as a naval power in his Os Lusíadas while Pierre de Ronsard set out to write La Franciade, an epic meant to be the Gallic equivalent of Virgil's poem that also traced back France's ancestry to Trojan princes.

– Catullus is not the only poet who translated Sappho ’ s poem to use for himself: Pierre de Ronsard is also known to have translated a version of it.

Although Ronsard attempted a long epic poem of the origins of the French monarchy entitled La Franciade ( modeled on Virgil and Homer ), this experiment was largely judged a failure, and he remains most remembered today for his various collections of Amours ( or love poems ), Odes and Hymnes.

It was probably in 1547 that du Bellay met Ronsard in an inn on the way to Poitiers, an event which may justly be regarded as the starting-point of the French school of Renaissance poetry.

Ronsard and his friends dissented violently from Sébillet on this and other points, and they doubtless felt a natural resentment at finding their ideas forestalled and, moreover, inadequately presented.

Both du Bellay and Ronsard laid stress on the necessity of prudence in these borrowings, and both repudiated the charge of wishing to Latinize their mother tongue.

Some single and minor pieces, an epithalamium on Antoine de Bourbon and Jeanne de Navarre ( 1550 ), a " Hymne de la France " ( 1549 ), an " Ode a la Paix ," preceded the publication in 1550 of the four first books (" first " is characteristic and noteworthy ) of the Odes of Pierre de Ronsard.

* F. L. Lucas, " The Prince of Court-Poets ", an essay on Ronsard in Studies French and English ( London, 1934 ), pp. 76-114 ; revised edition 1950 ; reprinted in The Cassell Miscellany ( London, 1958 ).

His work anticipated that of Pierre de Ronsard and Joachim du Bellay, but on the whole his poetry is inferior to that of his companions.

Clement Marot praises him, and Ronsard was careful to exempt him with one or two others from the scorn he poured on his immediate predecessors.

He figures with Philippe Desportes in the disdainful couplet of Boileau on Ronsard:

Ronsard also tried early on to adapt the Pindaric ode into French and, later, to write a nationalist verse epic modelled on Homer and Virgil ( entitled the Franciade ), which he never completed.

* In his Odes ( 1550 ), poet Pierre de Ronsard ( 1524 – 1585 ), founder of the literary group La Pleïade, often drew heavily on the superstitions of his native Vendômois country, writing about witches.

Claude Binet tells how young Baïf, bred on Latin and Greek, smoothed out the tiresome beginnings of the Greek language for Ronsard, who in return initiated his companion into the mysteries of French versification.

He was commanded to preach before the king at the convent of Vincennes, when the success of his sermon on the love of God, and of a funeral oration on the poet Ronsard, induced him to take orders.

* Studies French and English ; essays ( 1934 ; revised 1950 ) ; ( essay on Ronsard reprinted in The Cassell Miscellany, London, 1958 )

Ronsard also tried early on to adapt the Pindaric ode into French.

Ronsard also tried early on to adapt the Pindaric ode into French.

Although some French authors kept close to the ancient models ( Pierre de Ronsard translated a part of Aristophanes's " Plutus " at college ), on the whole the French comedic tradition shows a great deal of borrowing from all sources: medieval farce ( which continued to be immensely popular throughout the century ), the short story, Italian humanist comedies and " La Celestina " ( by Fernando de Rojas ).

From the late 1540s on, many of the " rhétoriqueurs " were rejected by the French circle of poets around Pierre de Ronsard ( sometimes called La Pléiade ) who considered them representatives of an outdated medieval tradition.

Racan's poetry was rigorous ( he reworked his poems throughout his life and his works were often published with last minute errata ), but he did not completely reject the authors of Renaissance ( unlike Malherbe, Racan appreciated Pierre de Ronsard and Michel de Montaigne ) and was less inflexible on the question of the three unities.

After several years of silence, in 1920 he produced a tribute to his friend Debussy in the form of La plainte, au loin, du faune ... for piano, which was followed by Amours, a setting of a sonnet by Pierre de Ronsard, for voice and piano, published in 1924 to mark the five hundredth anniversary of the poet's birth.

* George Wyndham, Ronsard and La Pléiade ( 1906 )

The critical and restraining tendency of Malherbe who preached greater technical perfection, and especially greater simplicity and purity in vocabulary and versification, was a sober correction to the luxuriant importation and innovation of Pierre de Ronsard and La Pléiade, but the lines of praise by Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux beginning Enfin Malherbe vint (" Finally Malherbe arrived ") are rendered only partially applicable by Boileau's ignorance of older French poetry.

Then Ronsard was, except by a few men of taste, such as Jean de La Bruyère and Fénelon, forgotten when he was not sneered at.

* Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim du Bellay and other poets of " La Pléiade "-poems

In 1547 he produced a funeral oration for Henry VIII of England and published his first poems " Œuvres poétiques ", which included translations from the first two cantos of Homer's Odyssey and the first book of Virgil's Georgics, twelve Petrarchian sonnets, three Horacian odes and a Martial-like epigram ; this poetry collection also included the first published poems of Joachim Du Bellay and Pierre de Ronsard ( Ronsard would include Jacques Peletier into his list of revolutionary contemporary poets " La Pléiade ").

* Ronsard & La Pleiade, with Selections From Their Poetry and Some Translations in the Original Meters ( 1906 )

Around Ronsard, Du Bellay and Jean Antoine de Baïf there formed a group of radical young noble poets of the court ( generally known today as La Pléiade, although use of this term is debated ).

—, La Fleur des musiciens de P. de Ronsard.

* La Terre les eaux va buvant for voice and piano ( 1925 ); words by Pierre de Ronsard

In these Régnier is a disciple of Pierre Ronsard ( whom he defended brilliantly against Malherbe ), without the occasional pedantry, the affectation or the undue fluency of the La Pléiade ; but in the satires he seems to have had no master except the ancients, for some of them were written before the publication of the satires of Vauquelin de la Fresnaye, and the Tragiques of Agrippa d ' Aubigné did not appear until 1616.

As a student, he became friends with the young poets Jean de La Péruse, Étienne Jodelle, Jean de La Taille and Pierre de Ronsard and the latter incorporated Remy into the " La Pléiade ", a group of revolutionary young poets.

Around Ronsard, Du Bellay and Jean Antoine de Baïf there formed a group of radical young noble poets of the court ( generally known today as La Pléiade, although use of this term is debated ).

* Pierre de Ronsard La Franciade ( 1572 )

The name " Pléiade " was adopted in 1323 by a group of fourteen poets ( seven men and seven women ) in Toulouse and is used as well to refer to the group of poets around Pierre de Ronsard and Joachim du Bellay in France in the 16th century ( see " La Pléiade ").