Deporte (English spelling) Philippe Desportes

French poet. Born in Chartres. He was the favorite of King Henry III as a court poet. His light and elegant style of poetry, influenced by Italian Neo-Petrarchism, stole the popularity of Ronsard, and he was renowned as the greatest poet of his time until the appearance of Malherbe, and his "Early Poems" (Les premières œuvres) (1573) was reprinted many times. He was a bridge between the Pleiade school and classicism, and it can be said that he digested the style of poetry that came before him and passed it on to the 17th century. In his later years, he retired to the monastery of Beumport in Normandy, and devoted himself exclusively to religious poetry and the translation of the "Psalms".

[Yumiko Takahashi]

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フランスの詩人。シャルトルに生まれる。宮廷詩人としてアンリ3世に寵愛(ちょうあい)される。イタリアのネオ・ペトラルキスムの影響を受けた軽妙流麗な詩風でロンサールの人気を奪い、マレルブの登場まで当代随一の詩人として名声を博し、『初期詩集』Les premières œuvres（1573）はたびたび版を重ねる。彼はプレイアード派から古典主義への橋渡しとして、彼以前の詩の様式を消化し17世紀へ伝えたといえる。晩年はノルマンディーのボンポールの修道院に隠棲(いんせい)し、もっぱら宗教詩と『詩篇(プソーム)』の翻訳に従事した。

［髙橋由美子］

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