Bibliography
The best edition of his collected works in French is still that produced by Henri Chamard in six volumes. Also, there are the Œuvres francaises (2 vols., 1866–1867), edited with introduction and notes by C. Marty-Laveaux in his Pléiade française. His Œuvres choisies were published by L. Becq de Fouquières in 1876. The chief source of his biography is his own poetry, especially the Latin elegy addressed to Jean de Morel, "Elegia ad Janum Morellum Ebredunensem, Pytadem suum," printed with a volume of Xenia (Paris, 1569). A study of his life and writings by H. Chamard, forming vol. viii. of the Travaux et mémoires de l'université de Lille (Lute, 1900), contains all the available information and corrects many common errors.
See also
- Sainte-Beuve, Tableau de la poésie française au XVI siècle (1828)
- La Défense et illust. de la langue française (1905), with biographical and critical introduction by Leon Séché, who also wrote Joachim du Bellay--documents nouveaux et inédits (1880), and published in 1903 the first volume of a new edition of the Œuvres
- Lettres de Joachim du Bellay (1884), edited by P. de Nolhac
- Walter Pater, "Joachim du Bellay", essay in The Renaissance (1873) pp. 155–176
- George Wyndham, Ronsard and La Pléiade (1906)
- Hilaire Belloc, Avril (1905)
- Arthur Tilley, The Literature of the French Renaissance (2 vols., 1904).
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