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Excerpt from Songs and Sonnets of Pierre De Ronsard, Gentleman of Vendomois: Selected and Translated Into English Verse, With an Introductory Essay and Notes On this side, then, he is the representative poet of the Renaissance. And this is really its most important side - not the digging up of a dead past, but the birth of a new world and a new art from the buried old. The true significance of the Renaissance lies in the true mean ing of the word, which is not resurrection but te-birth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.