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Book SynopsisThe sixteenth-century French poets Pierre de Ronsard and Guillaume Du Bartas enjoyed a wide, immediate and long-lasting, but varied and mixed reception throughout early modern Europe. Ronsard and Du Bartas in Early Modern Europe is the first book-length volume to explore the transnational reception histories of both poets in conjunction with each other. It takes into account the great variety of their readerships, including translators, imitating poets, poetical theorists, illustrators and painters, both male and female (Marie de Gournay, Anne Bradstreet), some of them illustrious (Tasso, King James VI and I of Scotland and England, Opitz…), others less known, even obscure, but worth to be saved from oblivion (such as the French Marc-Antoine Chalon, the English Mary Roper, and the Dutch poet Philibert van Borsselen). This volume offers a fascinating insight into the different reception modes in Europe and their underlying political, religious and literary identities. Contributors include: Peter Auger, Denis Bjaï, Karel Bostoen †, Philippe Chométy, Paola Cosentino, Violaine Giacomotto-Charra, Alisa van de Haar, Pádraic Lamb, Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou, Elisabeth Rothmund, Paul J. Smith, and Caroline Trotot.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 1 Introduction Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou and Paul J. Smith 2 Entre Lorraine et Bavière : Pantaleon Thevenin lecteur de Ronsard et de Du Bartas Denis Bjaï 3 Ronsard et Du Bartas, repoussoirs associés dans la France du XVIIe siècle Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou 4 ‘Le papier le reçoit, mais la foy le rejette’ : Christophe de Gamon correcteur de la poétique bartasienne Violaine Giacomotto-Charra 5 Le Zodiac poëtique (1619) d’Alexandre de Rivière : une ‘Remontrance’ à Christofle de Gamon sur son ‘Anti-Bartas’ ? Philippe Chométy 6 Conception ronsardienne de la métaphore et enjeux théoriques dans les traités de Marie de Gournay (1565–1645) Caroline Trotot 7 The Influence of Du Bartas in 17th-Century Italy Paola Cosentino 8 Poétique ou politique ? La réception de Ronsard et Du Bartas en Allemagne : Martin Opitz, Tobias Hübner et la Compagnie Frugifère Elisabeth Rothmund 9 Visiting Ronsard in 1578, or Jan van der Noot Preparing the Funding of His Europeiad Karel Bostoen † 10 Ronsard and Du Bartas in the Low Countries: Evidence from Early Modern Dutch Private Libraries and a Vanitas Still-Life by Edwaert Collier (ca. 1664) Paul J. Smith 11 Ronsard at School: French Poetry as Educational Tool in the Early Modern Low Countries Alisa van de Haar 12 Ichthyological Topics of the European Reception of Du Bartas Paul J. Smith 13 Poetic and Political Models: Ronsard, Du Bartas and James VI of Scotland Pádraic Lamb 14 Du Bartas’ Pattern for English Scriptural Poets Peter Auger 15 The King James Text of Du Bartas’ “Les Peres”: An Edition Peter Auger and Denis Bjaï Index Nominum
