Boileau

Nicolas . full name Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux. 1636--1711, French poet and critic; author of satires, epistles, and L'Art poétique (1674), in which he laid down the basic principles of French classical literature

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aesthetics
Batteux, Charles
Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas
burlesque
Chapelain, Jean
Charles Batteux
Charles Perrault
classicism
comedy
Commercial Structure
Destouches, Philippe
Didactic Literature
drama
Epistle
France
Francois Villon
genre
Gustave Lanson
Horace

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