Dec 19, 2009

French Poetry Since 1700 | French Poetry Since 1700

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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