Unacknowledged legislators [electronic resource] : the poet as lawgiver in post-revolutionary France / Roger Pearson.

First edition.

9780191816130 (electronic book)

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

English

1 online resource (xii, 632 pages)

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198754473 doi

PQ431 .P43 2016eb

841.709

'Unacknowledged Legislators' presents a detailed history of the theory and practice of French poetry from 1750 through to the end of the Romantic period. Focusing on five major writers of the period, it demonstrates how the figure of the poet as lawgiver was central to the theory and practice of poetry during this period.

'Unacknowledged Legislators' presents a detailed history of the theory and practice of French poetry from 1750 through to the end of the Romantic period. Focusing on five major writers of the period, it demonstrates how the figure of the poet as lawgiver was central to the theory and practice of poetry during this period.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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