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Joachim du Bellay
To His Friend in Elysium. So long you wandered on the dusky plain, Where flit the shadows with their endless cry, You reach the shore where all the world goes by,
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Joachim du Bellay (c. 1522 – January 1, 1560) was a French poet, critic, and a member of the Pléiade. He was born at the château of La Turmelière, not far from Liré, near ...
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Joachim du Bellay est un poète français né en 1522 au château de la Turmelière (Liré), dans le Maine-et-Loire, et mort en 1560, à Paris. Sa rencontre avec Pierre de Ronsard ...

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Bellay, Joachim du (c. 1522-1560), French poet, born near Liré. As a student in Paris he met the poet Pierre de Ronsard, who introduced him to the Pléiade, a Renaissance group restyling French literature on Greek and Roman models. In 1549 du Bellay wrote the Pléiade manifesto La Défense et illustration de la langue française (The Defence and Glorification of the French Language) and L'Olive, 115 sonnets styled after the Italian poet Petrarch. From 1553 to 1557 du Bellay lived in Rome, and in 1558 he wrote two more sonnet collections, Regrets and Antiquités de Rome. The latter collection was translated in 1591 into The Ruins of Rome, by the English poet Edmund Spenser.