La gauloiserie chaste de Pontus de Tyard ou Bissy comme terroir poétique

A Neoplatonist and Petrarchist, Pontus de Tyard also manifests a Gallic tendency in the later sonnets of the Erreurs amoureuses. Remaining perpetually chaste, this Gallic bent is perceptible in Tyard’s attachment to the idea of terroir (i.e. that land imbues with substance), especially with regards to his native land of Bissy and in verse dealing with modern-day Druids, a defense of physical and transcendent love alike, and a panacea that serves as both remedy and source of poetic furore.