The continental model : selected French critical essays of the seventeenth century, in English translation

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His opinion of the poem "Adone" (1623) ; On the reading of the old romances (c. 1646) / Jean Chapelain

Discourse on tragedy (1939) / Jean-François Sarasin

Selections from "The whole art of the stage" (1657) / François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac

Of the three unities (1660) / Pierre Corneille

Selections from "The works of M. de Saint-Evremond" / Charles de Saint-Evremond

Selections from "The original of romances" (1670) / Pierre-Daniel Huet, Bishop of Avranches

The bel esprit from "The conversations of Aristo and Eugene" (1671) ; The je ne sais quoi from "The conversations of Aristo and Eugene" (1671) ; Selections from "The art of criticism" (1687) / Dominique Bouhours

"L'Art poétique" (the French text) (1674) ; "The art of poetry" ; Selections form the preface of his translation of Longinus (1674) ; Reflection VII (1694) / Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise of poesy (Book I: In general) (1674) ; Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise of poesy (Book II: In particular) (1674) / René Rapin

Selections from "Treatise of the epick poem" (1675) / René Le Bossu

Of polite learning from "Characters" (1687) / Jean de la Bruyère

Of pastorals (1688) ; A digression on the ancients and the moderns (1688) / Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle