Avril: Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance
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Chapters (48)
- AVRIL
- BEING
- ESSAYS ON THE POETRY OF THE FRENCH RENAISSANCE
- H. BELLOC
- CONTENTS
- DEDICATION TO F.Y. ECCLES
- CHARLES OF ORLEANS.
- THE COMPLAINT.
- THE COMPLAINT.
- THE TWO ROUNDELS OF SPRING.
- THE TWO ROUNDELS OF SPRING.
- HIS LOVE AT MORNING.
- THE FAREWELL.
- VILLON.
- THE DEAD LADIES.
- AN EXCERPT FROM THE GRANT TESTAMENT.
- THE BALLADE OF OUR LADY.
- THE DEAD LORDS.
- THE DIRGE.
- CLEMENT MAROT.
- OF COURTING LONG AGO.
- NOËL.
- TWO EPIGRAMS.
- TO HIS LADY IN SICKNESS.
- THE VINEYARD SONG.
- RONSARD.
- DIALOGUE WITH THE NINE SISTERS.
- THE EPITAPH ON RABELAIS.
- "MIGNONNE ALLONS VOIR SI LA ROSE."
- THE "SONNETS FOR HÉLÈNE"
- XLII
- XLIII
- JOACHIM DU BELLAY.
- EXTRACTS FROM THE "ANTIQUITEZ DE ROME."
- III.
- IV.
- VI.
- THE SONNET OF EXILE.
- THE SONNET "HEUREUX QUI COMME ULYSSE."
- THE WINNOWER'S HYMN TO THE WINDS.
- THE FUNERAL ODES OF THE DOG AND THE CAT.
- MALHERBE.
- EXTRACTS.
- EXTRACTS FROM THE "CONSOLATION OF DU PERRIER."
- NOTES.
- CHARLES OF ORLEANS.
- VILLON.
- MAROT.
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