Ronsard And The Age Of Gold..
Bound in original amber cloth, gilt, with contrasting green title label, gilt, in price clipped pictorial dust wrapper. A very good copy.
£12.00
Publisher
At The University Press.,
Place
Cambridge
Date
1968
Item Description
8vo. 6 x 9 inches. xiv + 212 + [1] pp.
Illustrations
Illustrated by 8 pages of black and white plates, by 10 text figures and by map. Decorated by publisher's device on title page.
Notes
A study of the concept of The Age of Gold as exemplified in the poetry of Pierre de Ronsard (1524-85), the greatest poet of the French Renaissance, by Elizabeth Annette Armstrong (1917-2001), scholar of French literature. The myth of The Age of Gold, inherited from classical antiquity, told of previous era of human happiness without war or want.
[Stock No. 25639]
Subjects
16th Century • Art / Literature • Classics • French • Lit. Fiction • Poetry