...Arnold L. Kerson Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 FRANCISCO JAVIER ALEGRE’S TRANSLATION OF BOILEAU~SART POETZQUE By ARNOLDL. KERSON Although Francisco Javier Alegre ( 1729-88) was a distinguished Mex- ican...

...H. Carrington Lancaster © 1943 University of Washington 1943 BOILEAU’S PROPAGANDA FOR MOLIERE AND HIS TROUPE By H. CARRINGTONLANCASTER Boileau’s first verses were published in 1663. By 1668, when his eighth and ninth satires...

... de plus que Boileau. I1 Ctait inCvitable que l’autorith de Chapelain fiit dCclassCe par la gCnCration de Boileau. Mais il n’Ctait pas inevitable qu’il fiit remplacC par Boileau, qu’une autorid, une PrCsidence, suc- cCdassent dans la RCpublique des Lettres B une autoritC et B une PrCsidence...

... to Sentiment: Changing Theories of the Sublime, 1674–1710 Ann T. Delehanty What is the sublime? It appears that no one has defi ned it.—La Bruyère, 1688 n 1674, when Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux published his translation Iof Longinus’s treatise On the Sublime, together with the fi rst...

... Pascal, and Nicolas Boileau. Christopher Braider’s analyses intend to show that however much these men’s work may have been inflected by his subtitle’s (post-­Descartes) reason, it is above all the many varieties of actual material experience that give their work its abiding weight and meaning...

... of their status as women are all but completely absent. The first and foremost culprit here is Nicolas Boileau, the Richelieu of monarchist literary history who totally eliminated Scud6ry as the founding mother of the novel and ini- tiated the now centuries-old tradition of recognizing the importance...

... que soit la fable, elle ne fera point d‘effet si elle n’est vraisemblable. . . . La vCritC ne fait les choses que comme elles sont et la vraisemblance les fait comme elles doivent itre” (cited in Boileau, CEuvres, ed. Pierre Clarac [Paris, 19361, p. 226). Boileau, whose Art poktique...

... to tenth raters. Boileau’s criticism has kept alive the names of inany authors whose works are never read except by those who make it their business, but Boileau merely scratched the surface. Certainly most moderns, even those who claim to know something about the age of Louis XIV, have...

..., mais i Corneille et A Racine. Quand Boileau dit que “rien n’est beau que le vrai, le vrai seul est aimable,” il ne veut dCfendre ni Baudelaire, ni Zola. I1 est encore plus exigent dans d’autres passages. On sait assez la rigidit6 que les regles et les bienseances imposaient i la scene...

... franqaise, nous remarquons que c’est i Ronsard que M. Hutton consacre le plus de temps, suivi dans l’ordre par Baif, Chhier, Voltaire, Boileau, du Bellay, Le Sage, etc. Si, du reste, M. Hutton consacre quatre pages ii l’auteur de Gil BZas (pp. 514-18)’ ce n’est qu’en raison du distique latin...

...” (whoever reigns once wants to reign for- ever) (l. 1036). 350 MLQ September 2008 reading, but a rather limited one. Such a dismissive opinion was preva- lent as early as 1694, when the critic Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux wrote that Corneille’s work, “ayant été mis...

... his favorite authors: Lucian, Cicero, Vergil, Petrarch, Ariosto, Racine, Boileau, Fontenelle, and Pope. Boileau and Pope are coupled : Ove l’arguto Boelb, l’industre Pope gentil che non tentate vie Sull’antiche segnate orme...

... was the dominating figure in French literature from the beginning of the seventeenth century, and Boileau was generally well accepted until the beginning of the nine- Marcel Frangon 155 teenth century. Nevertheless, one must realize that Ronsard’s repu- tation had...

...) by Nicolas Boileau’s 1674 Art poétique and best exemplified by the tragedies of Jean Racine. Hélène Bilis aligns Passing Judgment with the well-established body of scholarship that has questioned how closely tragedians in practice adhered to these rules. More specifically, Bilis explores, through...

...Walter Isaacs Max Schoen. New York: Philosophical Library, 1944. Pp. 318. $5.00. Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 knowledge of, Schiller or Heine, of Corneille or Boileau, of Petrarch or Boccaccio, will have to go elsewhere. “Longfellow aIways used Faust...

.... viii + 325. $1.75. Miller, John Richardson. Boileau en France au Dix-huitiPme Sikle. Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press ; London : Hum- phrey Milford ; Paris : Soci4t4 d’edition “Les Belles Lettres,” 1942. Pp. 626. $5.50. Books Received 65...

... a rich assortment of character-sketches by means of which, according to Ben- jamin Boyce, “more frequently than Horace or Boileau he enlivened his poems with well-defined pictures of types and individuals Between 1700 and 1744 “Pope composed at least sixty sketches ranging in length from...

... bogus work as well. The list of “renowned modern poets” compiled by La Croix in L’art de la poësie françoise et latine and referenced by McFarland to show that Passerat headed the list was not stolen from the Recueil Barbin, but it, too, lacks credibility. Frédéric Lachèvre noticed that “Boileau...

... criteria Nerlich examines. He discusses the influence brought to bear upon the evolution of Spanish poetry by the ideas of Le Bossu, Jouvancy, Boileau, Voltaire, Mar- montel, Blair, and Batteux. In his appendixes he takes up such supplemen- tary themes as the poetics of Aristotle and Horace...

... of enthusiastic admiration, shared to a vary- ing degree by the Aminta, the Gerzcsalemme Liberata fell a casualty of the famous “Querelle.” The stigma of Boileau’s “clinquant” pre- vailed into the eighteenth century, when, as Beall puts it, “comme le liberalisme, le deisme et la musique italienne, le...