• DOI:10.1086/388187
• Corpus ID: 161187778

Considerations on "Les Amours de I. du Bellay"

@article{Merrill1935ConsiderationsO,
  title={Considerations on "Les Amours de I. du Bellay"},
  author={Robert Valentine Merrill},
  journal={Modern Philology},
  year={1935},
  volume={33},
  pages={129 - 138}
}

• R. V. Merrill
• Published 1 November 1935
• Linguistics
• Modern Philology

IN THE collective edition of Joachim du Bellay's French poems, published some eight years after his death by Aubert, appeared a group of twenty-nine sonnets under the title of Les Amours de I. du Bellay.' Of these, Sonnets XXI and XXII had appeared in 1561 in an edition of the Olive; the rest had not seen the light in printed form. All are in decasyllables save the seventeenth through the twentieth, which are in alexandrines; all follow for the sextet the rhyme scheme of ccdeed except Sonnet XXIII, where the order is ccdede. The ending of the first line is masculine for fourteen and feminine for fifteen of the sonnets.