Ronsard

Peter Ronsard, one of the fathers of French poetry, applied himself late to study.

His friend Ronsard said that his published poems gave no adequate idea of his powers.

Ronsard, we are told, was sufficiently a poet, to value the inscription on his vase more than the gold in the casket.

Apropos to Ronsard: the history of his loves is so whimsical and so truly French, that it must claim a place here.

Marie died young; and among Ronsard's most admired poems are two or three little pieces written after her death.