Art of Poetry / Lutrin

Art of Poetry / Lutrin
Nicolas Boileau, Sir William Soames, John Ozell
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h198 x 128mm - 250pg
26 Nov 2020 UK
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9781847496935
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Following in the footsteps of Horace' s Ars Poetica, Boileau' s Art of Poetry lays down, in four entertaining books dealing with all forms and genres of poetry, the codes and rules for good versification. This beautiful translation proved to have a lasting influence on the future shape of English literature. Among others, it was imitated by Pope in his Essay on Criticism, who also took Lutrin - included in this volume - as a model for his own masterpiece, The Rape of the Lock. Now reprinted for the first time in more than a century, with the original French text on facing pages, Sir William Soames' s 1683 verse translation of Boileau' s poetical masterpiece was revised by the great poet John Dryden.
The poem which does the greatest honour to the French language. -- Voltaire
The influential French poet and critic Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711) laid the foundations for all future French verse, and exercised a strong influence on the course of Western literature.
Status: Publication Abandoned or Delayed Indefinitely
ISBN-13: 9781847496935
Published: 26 Nov 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Alma Classics
Publisher: Alma Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 128mm
Pages: 250

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