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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE EARLY FRENCH POETS. CLEMENT MAROT. In the course of this last summer, I happened to reside for some weeks iu a place where I had free access to a large collection of books, which formerly belonged to the kings of France; but, like other royal property, having been confiscated at the Revolution, still continues unreclaimed, and is now open to the use of the public. Of this occasion I gladly availed myself, to extend my acquaintance with some of their earlier writers, whose works are not commonly to be met with in our own country; and amongst these, fixed my attention principally on such of their poets as were of most note at the restoration, or more properly speaking, the general diffusion of polite learning in Europe. What the result of this inquiry has been, I invite my readers to judge. The French of the present day, I know, set but little store on these revivers of the poetical art. At Versailles, where the Author spent the summer of 1821.?Ed. Their extreme solicitude for what they call the purity of their language, makes them easily offended by phrases, the irregularities of which we should be ready to pardon, in consideration of higher excellence, or even to welcome, as so many means of aiding us in that escape from the tameness of common every-day life, which it is one great end of poetry to effect. I do not know of any other people who have set up an exclusive standard of this sort. What would the Greeks of the age of Pericles have said to a literary censor, that should have endeavoured to persuade them to hrow aside the works of Homer and Hesiod, because he could have pointed out to them ineverypage, modes of expression that would not have passed muster in a coterie at Aspasia's ? What reply should we make to a critic, that would fain put us out of con...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217660464 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217660460 |
| Weight | 0.72 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.50 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 218 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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