<p>Professor Finch here undertakes to isolate a certain group of poets, belonging to the first half of the eighteenth century, who may appropriately be called <em>individualistes</em> and who are in various ways characteristic of a definite and important trend of their time.</p>
French Individualist Poetry 1686-1760: An Anthology
β Scribed by Robert Finch (editor); EugΓ¨ne Joliat (editor)
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Year
- 1971
- Tongue
- French
- Leaves
- 344
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This anthology has a double aim: to present a body of poetry, none of it easily available, some of it never before reproduced, and to point up a particular trend, individualist, until now nearly lost sight of in the maze of generalizations about eighteenth-century French poetry.
β¦ Table of Contents
Preface
Contents
Introduction
Segrais
Saint-Evremond
Perrault
FΓ©nelon
Fontenelle
La Motte
Chaulieu
La Fare
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Gresset
Lefranc De Pompignan
Bernis
Louis Racine
Appendix: Kindred Spirits
Chapelle
Roubin
Bonnecorse
Madame Deshoulières
Lainez
Vergier
Madame Des Plassons
Panard
Coquart
Dreux Du Radier
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