The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century in English Translation

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Scott Elledge, Donald Schier
U of Minnesota Press, 1960 - 416

The Continental Model was first published in 1960. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

The pervasive influence of seventeenth-century French criticism upon eighteenth-century English criticism makes it important for students of English and comparative literature to be familiar with the most important of the French works. Professors Elledge and Schier bring together here, in translation, some of the best examples of the French essays. They have chosen particularly works that are not otherwise available in translation.

Some of the translations are by contemporaries of the period. These are of works by d'Aubignac, Saint-Evremond, Huet, Rapin, Le Bossu, Bouhours, La Bruyere, and Fontenelle. Other selections have been translated by Professor Schier, and these include works of Chapelain, Sarasin, Scudery, Corneille, Bouhours, and Fontenelle.

The editors provide brief and pertinent comment on each writer and his place in literary history. They have also annotated the essays in order to save time for the reader who encounters references to other literatures not immediately clear to him. The volume as a whole provides a comprehensive and balanced selection of critical texts which were known to, used by, and significant in their influence upon writers such as Dryden, Dennis, Addison, Swift, Pope, and others.

 

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HIS OPINION OF THE POEM ADONE 1623
3
ON THE READING OF THE OLD ROMANCES
31
DISCOURSE ON TRAGEDY 1639
55
PREFACE TO ALARIC OR ROME DEFEATED 1654
80
SELECTIONS FROM THE WHOLE ART OF THE STAGE 1657
96
OF THE THREE UNITIES 1660
117
SELECTIONS FROM THE WORKS OF M DE SAINTEVREMOND
132
SELECTIONS FROM THE ORIGINAL OF ROMANCES 1670
186
SELECTIONS FROM THE ART OF CRITICISM 1687
239
REFLECTIONS ON ARISTOTLES TREATISE OF POESY IN GENERAL 1674
275
REFLECTIONS ON ARISTOTLES BOOK OF POESY IN PARTICULAR 1674
293
SELECTIONS FROM TREATISE OF THE EPICK POEM 1675
303
OF POLITE LEARNING FROM CHARACTERS 1687
324
OF PASTORALS 1688
339
A DIGRESSION ON THE ANCIENTS AND THE MODERNS 1688
358
NOTES
373

THE BEL ESPRIT FROM THE CONVERSATIONS OF ARISTO AND EUGENE 1671
206
THE JE NE SAIS QUOI FROM THE CONVERSATIONS OF ARISTO AND EUGENE 1671
228

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Dr. Elledge was a professor of English and chairman of that department.

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