French Poetry Since 1700 (Critical Survey of Poetry, Second Revised Edition)
The Eighteenth Century
It has often been said that the most poetic works of eighteenth century France were written in prose—works such as François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon’s Télémaque (1699; The Adventures of Telemachus, 1720), Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Héloïse (1761; Eloisa: Or, A Series of Original Letters, 1761), and especially Les Rêveries d’un promeneur solitaire (1782; The Reveries of a Solitary Walker,...
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