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A Life of William Shakespeare

Note 445 — APPENDIX (continued 2)

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There are modern reprints of most of these books, but not of all. There is a good reprint of Ronsard’s works, edited by M. P. Blanchemain, in La Bibliothèque Elzévirienne, 8 vols. 1867; the Étude sur la Vie de Ronsard, in the eighth volume, is useful. The works of Remy Belleau are issued in the same series. The writings of the seven original members of ‘La Pléiade’ are reprinted in La Pléiade Française, edited by Marty-Laveaux, 16 vols., 1866-93. Maurice Sève’s Délie was reissued at Lyons in 1862. Pierre de Brach’s poems were carefully edited by Reinhold Dezeimeris (2 vols., Paris, 1862). A complete edition of Desportes’s works, edited by Alfred Michiels, appeared in 1863. Prosper Blanchemain edited a reissue of the works of Louise Labé in 1875. The works of Jean de la Taille, of Amadis Jamyn, and of Guillaume des Autels are reprinted in Trésor des Vieux Poètes Français (1877 et annis seq.) See Sainte-Beuve’s Tableau Historique et Critique de la Poésie Française du XVIe Siècle (Paris, 1893); Henry Francis Cary’s Early French Poets (London, 1846); Becq de Fouquières’ Œuvres choisies des Poètes Français du XVIe Siècle contemporains avec Ronsard (1880), and the same editor’s selections from De Baïf, Du Bellay, and Ronsard; Darmesteter et Hatzfeld’s Le Seizième Siècle en France—Tableau de la Littérature et de la Langue (6th edit., 1897); and Petit de Julleville’s Histoire de la Langue et de la Littérature Française (1897, iii. 136-260).

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