Poetical Meditations (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Alphonse de Lamartine
- First Published: 1820
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: France or French people, Love or romance, Nature, Nineteenth century, Europe or Europeans, God, Romanticism, Time, Neoclassicism
Critical Evaluation:
When his volume of Poetical Meditations appeared in 1820, Alphonse de Lamartine brought French poetry into the Romantic mode that had already become an established poetic form in England and Germany. Even in this work, however, Romanticism is slow to emerge. The number of poems in different editions of Poetical Meditations varies between two dozen and three dozen, but only a few poems fully exhibit the Romantic style.
Most of the poems are composed in Alexandrines, the basic verse form of French neoclassicism, and the subjects are often...
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