The Art of Poetry - Boileau Despreaux, Nicolas
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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 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…mehr

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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 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."
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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."