This poet popularized alexandrine verse, and wrote love poems such as his Sonnets to Helene and a celebrated "Ode to Cassandre."
This author warned woodcutters that the trees they are chopping down are actually nymphs and goddesses in his elegy "to the forest of Gastine." He condemned the colonization of the New World in his "Complaint Against Fortune." In a poem dedicated to a fifteen-year-old girl he met only once, this author asked her whether "the rose has notÂ…lost, before the day is deadÂ…her color, bright as yours is bright?" He wrote four books about the Trojan Francus in imitation of Virgil's Aeneid; those books comprise his Franciade. This poet popularized alexandrine verse, and wrote love poems such as his Sonnets to Helene and a celebrated "Ode to Cassandre." He formed a group of poets at the court of Charles IX along with Pontus de Tyard and Joachim du Bellay. For 10 points, name this sixteenth-century French poet, the leader of La Pleiade.
This author warned woodcutters that the trees they are chopping down are actually nymphs and goddesses in his elegy "to the forest of Gastine."
Pierre de Ronsard