The directory «Plots»

Boileau-Despréaux Nicolas
(1636–1711)

French literary critic and poet. He was the spokesman of classicism, drawing his principles from his contemporaries, among them his friends Racine, Molière, and La Fontaine. His critical precepts are embodied in L’Art poétique (1674), a verse treatise; Le Lutrin (1683), a mock epic; 12 Satires (1st collected ed. 1716) and 12... More...

France, 1960, Nicolas Boileau

St. Vincent, 1993, The Apotheosis of Homer

France, 1960.06.11, Paris. Boileau