The speaker of one of this author's poems is opposed by an old woman who seeks to separate him from his beloved.
The speaker of one of this author's poems is opposed by an old woman who seeks to separate him from his beloved. Another work by this writer is a 516-line ode describing the battle between Ignorance and the Muses.  In addition to The Anti-erotic and Musagneomachie, he noted, "Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has travelled well" in one of 192 alexandrine sonnets written while in "exile" in Rome, his Regrets.  He also wrote the sonnet sequence Antiquities of Rome and imitated Petrarch in his sequence of love sonnets, L'Olive.  Another of his works was inspired by Sebillet and declared that great poetry could only be achieved by imitating the Greeks and Romans. This author of Defense and Illustration of the French Language also wrote a manifesto for the group that he was in, along with writers like Remy Belleau and Pierre de Ronsard. FTP, name this French poet and member of Le Pleiade. 
The speaker of one of this author's poems is opposed by an old woman who seeks to separate him from his beloved.
Joachim du Bellay