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  • Ahmed, Ehsan. "Quel Genre de Querelle?' Pierre de Ronsard and Janne." Romance Notes XXXVIII, No. 3 (Spring 1998): 255-61. (Interpretation of Ronsard's “A Janne Impitoiable” which explores the poem's “poetics of misogyny.”)
  • Bizer, Marc. "The Genealogy of Poetry According to Ronsard and Julius Caesar Scaliger." Humanistica Lovaniensia: Journal of Neo-Latin Studies XLIII (1994): 304-18. (Considers the Renaissance debate over the superiority of Homer or Vergil in regard to the critical views of Ronsard and his contemporary Scaliger.)
  • Calin, William. "Ronsard's Cosmic Warfare: An Interpretation of His Hymnes and Discours." Symposium XXVIII, No. 2 (Summer 1974): 101-18. (Examines cosmological, heroic, and religious interpretations of Ronsard's Hymnes and Discours.)
  • Campion, Edmund J. "Classical Rhetoric and Ronsard's 'Elegie sur l'excellence de l'espirit des hommes.'" Forum XXIX, No. 1 (Winter 1988): 35-41. (Explores Ronsard's depiction of the classical theme of the dignity of man in “Elegie sur l'excellence de l'espirit des hommes.”)
  • Campo, Roberto E. Ronsard's Contentious Sisters: The Paragone between Poetry and Painting in the Works of Pierre de Ronsard. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998, 277 p. (Extensive study of Ronsard's poems on painting and his place in the Renaissance controversy over the relative merits of the literary and visual arts.)
  • Castor, Grahame. Pléiade Poetics: A Study in Sixteenth-Century Thought and Terminology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964, 208 p. (Comprehensive study of the Pléiade movement, commenting on Ronsard's understanding of nature, imagination, and invention.)
  • Cave, Terence C., ed. Ronsard the Poet. London: Methuen & Company, 1973, 360 p. (Excellent collection of critical essays on Ronsard, treating such issues as Neoplatonism in Ronsard's poetic imagination, the idea of music in Ronsard's poetry, and the scope of Ronsard's political and polemical works.)
  • Conley, Tom. "Ronsard's Sonnet-Pictures." In The Graphic Unconscious in Early Modern French Writing, pp. 70-90. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. (Uncovers graphical and schematic representations in Ronsard's Amours.)
  • Crumpacker, Mary M. "'Quand vous serez bien vielle': The Development of a Lyric Form and Its Implications for the Evolution of Ronsard's Poetic Technique." Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance XLI, No. 2 (May 1979): 305-16. (Thorough stylistic analysis of Ronsard's "Quand vous serez bien vielle.")
  • Della Neva, Jo Ann. "Petrarch at the Portal: Opening Signals in Les Amours of Ronsard." Revista di Letterature moderne e comparate L, No. 3 (August-September 1997): 259-72. (Contends that Ronsard continued to use Petrarchan images in the later variants of his love poetry.)
  • DellaNeva, Joann. "Ravishing Beauties in the Amours of Ronsard: Rape, Mythology, and the Petrarchist Tradition." Neophilologus LXXIII, No. 1 (January 1989): 23-35. (Contends that "in order to read Ronsard's poetry, … all of us, male and female alike, must learn to 'read as a woman,' namely, like the (female) inscribed reader of his text.")
  • Duval, Edwin M. "The Place of the Present: Ronsard, Aubigné, and the 'Misères de ce Temps.'" Yale French Studies, No. 80 (1991): 13-29. (Investigates Agrippa d'Aubigné's poetic response to Ronsard's epic historical poem of 1562, Discours des misères de ce temps, which, Duval contends, corrects Ronsard's erroneous perception of contemporary events in France.)
  • Fenoaltea, Doranne. "A Poetic Monument: Arrangement in Book I of Ronsard's 1550 Odes." In The Ladder of High Designs: Structure and Interpretation of the French Lyric Sequence, edited by Doranne Fenoaltea and David Lee Rubin, pp. 54-72. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991. (Focuses on formal, thematic patterns—in the shapes of rings and interlocking rings—in Ronsard's Odes.)
  • Ford, Philip. "Ronsard and the Theme of Inspiration." In The Equilibrium of Wit: Essays for Odette de Mourges, edited by Peter Bayley and Dorothy Gabe Coleman, pp. 57-69. Lexington, Ky.: French Forum, 1982. (Examines the theme of poetic inspiration in Ronsard's verse.)
  • Griffiths, Richard. "Humor and Complicity in Ronsard's Continuation des Amours." In The Equilibrium of Wit: Essays for Odette de Mourges,* edited by Peter Bayley and Dorothy Gabe Coleman, pp. 41-56. Lexington, Ky.: French Forum, 1982. (Explores humor in Ronsard's Continuation des Amours, maintaining the collection represents a turning point in the poet's relationship with his readers.)
  • Hanisch, Gertrude S. "Ronsard's Love Elegies." In Love Elegies of the Renaissance: Marot, Louise Labé and Ronsard, pp. 96-134. Stanford French and Italian Studies, vol. XV. Saratoga, Calif.: Anma Libri, 1979. (Elaborate exposition of Ronsard's love elegies, centering on their author's role in recreating a lapsed classical genre.)
  • Hanks, Joyce Main. Ronsard and Biblical Tradition. Études littéraires françaises, edited by Wolfgang Leiner, vol. 17. Tubingen, West Germany: Gunter Narr; Paris: Jean-Michel Place, 1982, 199 p. (Explores Ronsard's use of biblical imagery, language, characters, and events in his poetry.)
  • Hutton, James. "Rhetorical Doctrine and Some Poems of Ronsard." In The Rhetorical Idiom: Essays in Rhetoric, Oratory, Language, and Drama Presented to Herbert August Wichelns, edited by Donard C. Bryant, pp. 315-40. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1958. (Considers the presence of rhetorical patterns in Ronsard's poems, focusing on the poet's declamations of the late 1550s.)
  • Jones, K. R. W. Pierre de Ronsard. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1970, 160 p. (Thorough introduction to Ronsard's major works.)
  • Kennedy, William J. "The Petrarchan Mode in Lyric Poetry: Ronsard's Les Amours." In his Rhetorical Norms in Renaissance Literature,* pp. 41-57. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978. (Analyzes Ronsard's use of the Petrarchan mode in Les Amours.)
  • Langer, Ullrich. Invention, Death and Self-Definitions in the Poetry of Pierre de Ronsard. Stanford French and Italian Studies, vol. XLV. Saratoga, Calif.: Anma Libri, 1986, 121 p. (Treats the "poet's doubts, fears, and pessimism," maintaining that "study of Ronsard's dark side has to be integrated into a more general conceptual context, as the poet's anxieties are symptoms of certain metaphysical problems endemic to the whole.")
  • Lewis, John. "Helen on Lesbos: A Sapphic Echo in Ronsard's Sonnets pour Helene?" French Studies Bulletin, No. 49 (Winter 1993): 4-8. (Mentions the significance of a Sapphic fragment to Ronsard's image of himself as an immortalized poet reposing in the mythic Elysian Fields.)
  • Logan, Marie-Rose. "Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585) and the Pléiade." In European Writers: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance, edited by William H. Jackson and George Stade, vol. 1, pp. 721-46. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1983. (Comprehensive overview of Ronsard's life and career.)
  • McGowan, Margaret M. Ideal Forms in the Age of Ronsard. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985, 348 p. (Attempts "to embed Ronsard's work in its precise social and intellectual context.")
  • Moss, Ann. "Pierre de Ronsard." In her Poetry and Fable: Studies in Mythological Narrative in Sixteenth-Century France, pp. 118-50. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. (Investigates Ronsard's use of poetic language and device, especially his handling of metaphor, allusion, ambiguity, and irony.)
  • Nagel, Alan F. "Literary and Historical Context in Ronsard's Sonnets pour Hélène." PMLA 94, No. 3 (May 1979): 406-19. (Focuses on Ronsard's protagonist, Hélène, contending that she "joins a system of literary conventions with a court and a political situation that uncomfortably reflect the darker side of [Ronsard's] literary themes.")
  • Page, Curtis Hidden. Introduction to Songs & Sonnets of Pierre de Ronsard, Gentleman of Vendomois, by Pierre de Ronsard, translated by Curtis Hidden Page, pp. ix-xxxi. Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1903. (Studies Ronsard as "the representative poet of the Renaissance.")
  • Quainton, Malcolm D. Ronsard's Ordered Chaos: Visions of Flux and Stability in the Poetry of Pierre de Ronsard. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1980, 252 p. (Analyzes the different themes of flux in Ronsard's poetry, particularly "the omnipotence and equality of death, the destructive nature of time and the inconstancy of Fortune.")
  • Rigolet, François. "Homer's Virgilian Authority: Ronsard's Counterfeit Epic Theory." In Discourses of Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Literature, edited by Kevin Brownlee and Walter Stephens, pp. 63-75. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1989. (Discusses Homer's Aeneid as a major inspiration for Ronsard's epic La Franciade.)
  • Rocher, Gregory de. "Ronsard's Dildo Sonnet: The Scandal of Poissy and Rasse des Noeux." In Writing the Renaissance: Essays on Sixteenth-Century French Literature in Honor of Floyd Gray, edited by Raymond C. La Charité, pp. 149-64. Lexington, Ky.: French Forum, 1992. (Analyzes Ronsard's poem on the subject of female autoeroticism, and examines its use in a politico-religious dispute between Protestants and Catholics.)
  • Satterthwaite, Alfred W. Spenser, Ronsard, and Du Bellay: A Renaissance Comparison. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960, 282 p. (Compares Ronsard's attitude toward Renaissance Neo-platonism with the related attitudes of Edmund Spenser and Joachim du Bellay.)
  • Scollen, Christine M. Introduction to Pierre de Ronsard: Selected Poems, by Pierre de Ronsard, pp. 1-35. London: University of London, Athlone Press, 1974. (General survey of Ronsard's life and poetry, especially useful for its generic treatment of the poet's principal works.)
  • Silver, Isidore. Ronsard and the Hellenic Renaissance in France, Volume 1: Ronsard and the Greek Epic. St. Louis: Washington University Press, 1961, 503 p. (Examines Hellenic influence on Ronsard's poetry.)
  • Silver, Isidore. Ronsard and the Hellenic Renaissance in France, Volume II, Ronsard and the Grecian Lyre, Parts I and II. Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 1981-87. (Analyzes the influence of the Greek lyric poets, particularly Pindar, on Ronsard's work.)
  • Silver, Isidore. The Intellectual Evolution of Ronsard, Volume 1: The Formative Influences. St. Louis: Washington University Press, 1969, 357 p. (Traces Ronsard's intellectual evolution, focusing on the subjects that interested the poet either permanently or at various times of his life.)
  • Smith, Malcolm C. Ronsard & Du Bellay Versus Bèze: Allusiveness in Renaissance Literary Texts. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1995, 142 p. (Probes Ronsard's career-long feud with the French Reformer Théodore de Bèze concerning the poet's use of classical pagan authors rather than the Bible for literary inspiration.)
  • Weinberg, Florence M. "Double Dido: Patterns of Passion in Ronsard's Franciade." In Lapidary Inscriptions: Renaissance Essays for Donald A. Stone, Jr., edited by Barbara C. Bowen and Jerry C. Nash, pp. 73-85. Lexington, Ky.: French Forum, 1991. (Responds to negative critical assessments of Ronsard's use of dual heroines in the Franciade. Weinberg maintains that this doubling serves the legitimate purpose of illustrating Ronsard's interpretation of classical ideas of love and morality.)
  • Welch, Barbara L. Ronsard's Mercury: The Arcane Muse. New York: Peter Lang, 1986, 146 p. (Explores the meaning of Mercury in Ronsard's poetry, distinguishing the poet's "concept of the god from those of the prominent mythographers of his period.")
  • Whitney, Mark S. Critical Reactions and the Christian Element in the Poetry of Pierre de Ronsard. University of North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, No. 98. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1971, 52 p. (Examines the role of Christian inspiration in shaping Ronsard's poetry.)

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