…in France, of course, we had the great rise of the French Pleiades, or the Pleiades, the great cluster of French poets under Ronsard. And this group of poets was up to its neck in politics. fighting like Francois Guillaume for the invisible empire of the…

…in England and on the continent as late as the 17th or early 18th century. The Pleiades, the great constellation of poets, under Ronsard was part of the troubadours they were the poets of great verse they were the writers of the sonnets and of course…