Nerval, a renaissance poet

Abstract

In 1830 Nerval published an Anthology of Poems from Ronsard (...) which, next to his Anthology of German Poems, issued in the same year, form a diptych where the two sides of a manifesto for a popular and national poetry – for a romantic poetry. The Renaissance inspiration also continues in Nerval’s own style of writing, which can be traced in his Odelettes, recollections from a time when Nerval  "ronsardisait”; in some of his sonnets from Chimera
[Chimères] in which Nerval “welded ” his verses from Du Bartas’; and in the prose style of Sylvie, a narrative strictly connected with Polifilo Dream by Francesco Colonna, although the Nervalian novelette plunges the reader in a literary universe where the Renaissance allegory can no longer work so efficiently.