Boileau, Nicolas(1636–1711)
Nicolas Boileau, also known as Boileau-Despréaux, has retrospectively been raised to the rank of emblematic figure of French classicism. He has been described...
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The French critic and writer Nicholas Boileau-Despréaux (1636-1711) is best known for the theory of poetics expressed in his "Art poétique." Through this work he became the foremost expo...
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For more than three hundred years Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux has been the subject of many literary commentaries. From this mass of books, articles, pamphlets, poems, and polemical tracts, two di...
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