Bellay, Joachim Du | Jo Ann Della Neva (essay date 1987)
Jo Ann Della Neva (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: Della Neva, Jo Ann. “Illustrating the Deffence: Imitation And Poetic Perfection In Du Bellay's Olive.” The French Review: Journal Of The American Association Of Teachers Of French 61, no. 1 (1987): 38-49.
[In the essay which follows, Della Neva explores the possible influences upon two of Du Bellay's works]
As literary historians have often pointed out, two of Joachim Du Bellay's earliest important works were, in fact, published simultaneously. His Deffence et illustration de la langue françoyse, [Hereafter referred to as DI] the theoretical work destined to become the chief poetic manifesto of the Pléiade, and his first edition of the Olive, [Hereafter referred to as O] a 50-sonnet petrarchist sequence, were published under the same privilège in 1549.1 One year later, Du Bellay published a second, expanded version of the...
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