Sonnets pour Hélène

work by Ronsard

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In Pierre de Ronsard
…Amours de Marie; and the Sonnets pour Hélène. In the latter, which is now perhaps the most famous of his collections, the veteran poet demonstrates his power to revivify the stylized patterns of courtly love poetry. Even in his last illness, Ronsard still wrote verse that is sophisticated in form…
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