Ronsard's Discours
- Download the seminar worksheet here
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- Look at the originals:
- See especially the section on "the Ronsard polemic" in The Renaissance in Print: Sixteenth-Century Books in the Douglas Gordon Collection, at the University of Virginia
- For a free contemporary (and prohibited) translation of the Discours of 1562, see Thomas Jeney's A discours of the present troobles in Fraunce, and miseries of this tyme, printed at Antwerp, 1568. Go to the "Historical Texts" database, available through Warwick University Library's website.
- See also the links on the general "Further Reading" page.
- For more in-depth work and further references, see amongst others:
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- Andrea Frisch, 'Les Discours de Ronsard: une poétique de l'oubli?', Tangence 87 (2008), 47-61 (available via Érudit [Open Access]).
- Nicolas Lombart, 'Bibliographie d’Agrégation 2009 : Ronsard, Les Discours', Seizième Siècle, 6 (2010), 271-298 (available via Persée).
(Don't forget to undertake your own bibliographical searches!).