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Nicolas Boileau

 

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[Nicolas] Boileau[-Despreaux] : Satires [and other works]

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ...; all Boileau's "Satires", and a good number of his "Epistles", and "Mithridate". ...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone      Print: Book

  

Nicolas Boileau Despreaux : Letters

Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 February 1838: 'I have just been reading Racine's "Letters," and Boileau's. How much one should like both, if it were not for their slavish servile devotion to the king (and I think it was real), and to that odious woman Madame de Maintenon.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

  

Nicolas Boileau : L'Art Poetique

Texts on which detailed notes made in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Boileau, L'Art Poetique, comments on which include: 'He realises that experience is valuable to a writer and that the heart of the reader must be touched: but his conceptions of experience and the heart are jejune.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

 

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