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French poet and critic Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636-1711) was by turns venerated (in the eighteenth century) and reviled (in the nineteenth century) as the lawgiver of French classicism. Today critics see his achievement as more varied and complex than the label of classicism generally allows. T...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Boileau Despréaux, Nicolas, 1636-1711
Other Authors: Raffel, Burton
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Boileau Despréaux, Nicolas, > 1636-1711. > Works. > Selections.
1600-1699
French poetry > 17th century > Translations into English.
POETRY > Continental European.
POETRY > General.
French poetry.
Translations.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Introduction: A Classicist in Modern Times
  • Satire II: To Monsieur de Molière
  • To Climène
  • Quatrain on a Portrait of Rocinante, Don Quijote' s Horse
  • On My Older Brother, Member of the Académie Française, with Whom I' d Quarreled
  • Epitaph for the Author's Mother
  • Epigram: The Grateful Debtor
  • A Perpetual Student of Time
  • Satire I
  • The Art of Poetry
  • Canto One
  • Canto Two
  • Canto Three
  • Canto Four

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