Ronsard and Du Bartas in Early Modern Europe

Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou is Professor of French language of the sixteenth century at Sorbonne Université. She is the author of numerous publications on sixteenth-century poetry and Rabelais. Her publications include L’Imaginaire cosmologique de Ronsard (2002). Paul J. Smith is Emeritus Professor of French Literature at Leiden University. He has published monographs, collective volumes and many articles on French Literature, including the co-edited volume Early Modern Catalogues of Imaginary Books. A Scholarly Anthology (2020).

Acknowledgements

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