BOILEAU-DESPREAUX, Nicolas.

£750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Oeuvres. A very attractively bound set of a finely illustrated edition. The work of Boileau (1636-1711) includes satires, mock-heroic epics, and the didactic treatise L'Art poétique. The latter became the canonical work on Classical principles and strongly influenced Samuel Johnson, John Dryden, and Alexander Pope.

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