Art of Poetry and Lutrin

Informationen zum Autor Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux is the author of "Art of Poetry."The influential French poet and criticlaid the foundations for all future French verse, and exercised a strong influence on the course of Western literature." Klappentext 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 magnificently by Pope in his Essay on Criticism, who also took Lutrin as a model for his own masterpiece, "The Rape of the Lock." Now reprinted for the first time in more than a century, Sir William Soames s 1683 verse translation of Boileau s poetical masterpiece revised by the great poet John Dryden here appears together with an eighteenth-century version of his hugely influential mock-heroic poem, Lutrin, with the original French text on facing pages."

Product details

• Authors: Nicolas Boileau, Nicolas Boileau Despreaux
• Publisher: Alma Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.03.2012
• EAN: 9781847492937
• ISBN: 978-1-84749-293-7
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies