Selected poems
By: Nicholas Boileau ; translated from the French by Burton Raffel ; introduction by Julia Prest.
Contributors: Raffel, Burton.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 61
ISBN-13: 9780300108217
Work titles: Selections.
Description: "French poet and critic Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711) was by turns venerated (in the eighteenth century) and reviled (in the nineteenth century) as the lawgiver of French classicism. Today critics see his achievement as more varied and complex than the label of classicism allows. This selection of Boileau's poems, translated with spirit and carefully annotated by Burton Raffel, brings the work of Boileau to English-speaking readers for the first time in a generation." "Much admired for his wit and ingenuity, Boileau perceived the role of the satirist as the scourge of bad writing and delighted in the notion of "l'ami du vrai," the brash truth-teller and enemy of humbug, inflation, and equivocation."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xx).