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REMY See also:BELLEAU (c. 1527-1577)
, See also:French poet, and member of the Pleiade (see See also:DAURAT), was See also:born at Nogent-le-See also:Rotrou about 1527
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He studied with See also:Ronsard and others under See also:Jean Daurat at the See also:College de Coqueret
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He was attached to Rene de See also:Lorraine, See also:marquis d'Elbceuf, in the expedition against See also:Naples in 1557, where he did See also:good military service
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On his return he was made See also:tutor to the See also:young See also: He was buried in the See also:nave of the Grands Augustins at See also:Paris, and was See also:borne to the tomb on the pious shoulders of four poets, Ronsard, J . A. de See also:Ball, Philippe See also:Desportes and Amadis Jamyn . His most considerable work is La Bergerie (1565-1572), a See also:pastoral in See also:prose and See also:verse, written in See also:imitation of See also:Sannazaro . The lines on See also:April in the Bergerie are well known to all readers of French See also:poetry . Belleau was the French See also:Herrick, full of picturesqueness, warmth and See also:colour . His skies drop flowers and all his See also:air is perfumed, and this voluptuous sweetness degenerates sometimes into See also:licence . Extremely popular in his own See also:age, he shared the See also:fate of his friends, and was undeservedly forgotten in the next . See also:Regnier said: "Belleau ne parle pas comme on parle a la ville "; and his lyrical beauty was lost on the See also:trim 17th See also:century . His See also:complete See also:works were collected in 1578, and contain, besides the works already mentioned, a See also:comedy entitled La Reconnue, in See also:short rhymed lines, which is not without See also:humour and See also:life, and a comic masterpiece, a macaronic poem on the religious See also:wars, Dictamen metrificunt de belle huguenotico et reistroruml piglamine ad sod See also:ales (Paris, no date) . The Euvres completes (3 vols., 1867) of Remy Belleau were edited by A . Gouverneur; and his Euvres poetiques (2 vols., 1879) by M . Ch . Marty-Laveaux in his Pleiade frangaise; see also C . A . Sainte-Beuve, Tableau historique et critique de la poesie frangaise au X See also:VIe siecle (ed . 1876), i. pp . 155-16o, and ii. pp . 296 seq . |
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