CRITICISM

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Additional coverage of Ronsard's life and career is contained in the following source published by the Gale Group: Poetry Criticism, Vol. 11.