The poetry of place
Subtitle: lyric, landscape, and ideology in Renaissance France
By: Louisa Mackenzie
Series: European Union studies series; European Union studies
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781442642393
Subjects: In literature; Landscapes in literature; French Pastoral poetry; History and criticism; National characteristics, French, in literature; French poetry
Description: The sixteenth century in France was marked by religious warfare and shifting political and physical landscapes. Between 1549 and 1584, however, the Pleiade poets, including Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim Du Bellay, Remy Belleau, and Antoine de Baif, produced some of the most abiding and irenic depictions of rural French landscapes ever written. In The Poetry of Place, Louisa Mackenzie reveals and analyses the cultural history of French paysage through her study of lyric poetry and its connections with landscape painting, cartography, and land-use history. --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-301) and index.
Table of contents: title: Place and poetry : an overview; title: The poet and the mapmaker : lyric and cartographic images of France; title: The poet, the nation, and the region : constructing Anjou and France; title: The poet and the painter : problems of representation; title: The poet and the environment : naturalizing conservative nostalgia; title: The poet and the bower : escaping history; title: Conclusion.