Ronsard

[ rawn-sar ]

noun

1. Pierre de [pye, r, d, uh], 1524–85, French poet.

Ronsard

/ rɔ̃sar /

noun

1. RonsardPierre de15241585MFrenchWRITING: poet Pierre de (pjɛr də). 1524–85, French poet, foremost of the Pléiade

Example Sentences

Born near Angers in western France around 1522, du Bellay was – with Pierre de Ronsard – founder of a circle of poets known as La Pleiade which championed French, rather than Latin, as a language of poetry.

From BBC

The paper's lead authors are Eike-Christian Wamhoff, a former MIT postdoc; Larance Ronsard, a Ragon Institute postdoc; Jared Feldman, a former Harvard University graduate student; Grant Knappe, an MIT graduate student; and Blake Hauser, a former Harvard graduate student.

From Science Daily

She studied Renaissance literature at Radcliffe College, graduating in 1951, and one year later received a master’s degree from Columbia University with a thesis on representations of death in the French poetry of Pierre de Ronsard.

From Washington Post

Settings of Ronsard by de Monte and Bertrand exuded subtle sophistication, and I know of no other ensemble I would rather hear sing Palestrina.

From Washington Post

"Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Ronsard, Verlaine and Shakespeare - in English: 'To be or not to be.' What my grandchildren learn is different, more Jacques Prevert and Maurice Careme. Even with poetry, fashions change."

From BBC