SOURCE: "'It's All in the Name': Amorous Vision and Poetic Creativity in Ronsard's Sonets pour Helene," in Literary Onomastics Studies, Vol. XV, 1988, pp. 15-22.

In the following essay, Gilman describes some of the onomastic strategies that Ronsard employs in order to represent and unite his vision of love and poetic creativity.

In his final sonnet sequence, Pierre de Ronsard unites his vision of love with his search for poetic creativity. As a poet of love, he describes the turbulence of amorous experience throughout his personal verse and, like Petrarch and his followers, details the disquiet and disappointment of unrequited love. By centering attention on his use of Petrarchism as a poetic idiom, Desonay, Stone, Gendre, and Castor have studied Ronsard's imitation of Petrarch's conception and expression of love and have traced a progression from an innovative handling of conventional tropes and techniques in the Amours (1552-53) to a...