Selected poems / Nicholas Boileau ; translated from the French by Burton Raffel ; introduction by Julia Prest.

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. Th...

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Main Author: Boileau Despréaux, Nicolas, 1636-1711
Contributors: Raffel, Burton
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
French
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2007.
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