Rémy Belleau

See also: Belleau

Rémy Belleau (Nogent-le-Rotrou, 1528 - Paris, 1577) was a French poet of the French Pléiade

Biography

Remy Belleau began its studies in the monks from the Saint-Denis abbey in Nogent-le-Rotrou before continuing them, towards 1553, with Paris where it supplements a formation dominated by the love of Greek poetry. Intelligent without overload of scholarship, it was before a whole man who liked.

It joined soon the group of the Collège of Coqueret (Pierre de Ronsard, Antoine de Baïf, Joachim of Bellay), then the Pléiade in 1554 and publishes in 1556 a translation of the Odes of Anacréon: the success of this light lyricism is considerable. Although a little dries according to Ronsard, this translation comes to enrich the “Brigade” by a new style; it has for it the fidelity and the exactitude which made success of them. One also owes him the translation of the Cantique of the Canticles and the Ode to the Aimee of Sappho. In fact, Belleau is the first French translator of the poetess of Lesbos.

The same year, famous Belleau in the Small Inventions flowers, fruits, invaluable stones, animal and points out the rage of the expression of Francis Ponge.

Its personal poems still missed originality and it was necessary to await 1565 to discover its Sheep-fold, masterpiece of the pastoral poetry of which April reveals an erotism with flower of center. In 1576, appear the Amours and Nouveaux Eschanges of the invaluable stones, virtues and properties icelles . This work, described like a “mineral epopee” by R. Sabatier, tells the properties of the stones, their history, the myth of their origin by associating the symbolic system of the stones with philosophical and scientific interpretations.

According to some the least lyric of the poets of the Pleiad, most modest with saying others, Rémy Belleau does not certainly overflow of imagination and he imitated more than he did not create, but he remains a goldsmith of the verb.

After leanhaving initially leant for the Reform, the author adopts the party of his guards, the Guise. Tutor in Paris of Charles of Lorraine, it will reside until his death (1577) at the hotel of Own way. Pierre de Ronsard which made great case of Belleau, and called it the Peintre of nature , wrote its epitaph:

do not cut, industrial hands

stones to cover Belleau,
Itself has basti its tomb
Dedans its Stones Invaluable.

Its works

Rémy Belleau translated into worms:

  • the Odes of Anacréon
  • the Phenomena of Aratos
  • the Ecclésisate
  • the Canticle of the canticles .

It published in 1565 a poem the Sheep-fold in the pastoral kind and the Loves and new exchanges of invaluable stones in 1576, a collection which associates the symbolic system of the stones with philosophical and scientific interpretations.

He played in the parts of his friend Jodelle, and he did itself a comedy entitled Recognized the .

Its Œuvres was joined together with Rouen, 1604, 2 volumes in-12.

Its elegant and easy talent made it call by its contemporaries nice Belleau

Source

External bonds

  • complete Works of Rémy Belleau (on the site of Gallica):
    • '' Volume I ''
    • '' Tome II ''
    • '' Tome III ''

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