Author: Boileau Despréaux
Title: Oeuvres complètes contenant ses poésies, écrits en prose, sa traduction de Longin, ses lettres à Racine, à Brossette, et à diverses autres personnes.
Description: Paris, Madame Veuve Dabo. 1821. leather. l 3 vol. Vol 1 with engraved portrait of the writer; vol. 2 engraved frontispiece. Titlepages a bit foxed. Leather bindings weary. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636 - 1711), often known simply as Boileau was a French poet and critic. He did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry, in the same way that Blaise Pascal did to reform the prose. He was greatly influenced by Horace.

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