GRANDEUR ET MISÈRE DE JACQUES DELILLE

Authors

  • Covadonga Grijalva Castaños
  • Françoise Paulet Dubois
Keywords: Delille, gardens, didactic poetry, Classicism, Romanticism

Abstract

In 1782, Jacques Delille published Les Jardins, a work which success would last for several decades. It is a sort of rhymed gardening treatise, in which we analyse «Chant I», in order to extract its ideas and structure, feel the «ecological » emotions of a scholar fond of Antiquity and Nature, and to celebrate the end of that century in which our great romantics will get their inspiration. Although it is easy enough to list all the formal defects and the tedious repetitions that mangle this long poem, we would like to make this forgotten poet shine again, a poet who doesn’t only mark the transition between classicism and preromanticism, but has also conserved a charm we will try to let the reader find.

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Author Biographies

Covadonga Grijalva Castaños

Universidad de Almeria

Françoise Paulet Dubois

IES bilingüe “Alborán” (Almería)
How to Cite
Grijalva Castaños, C., & Paulet Dubois, F. (2008). GRANDEUR ET MISÈRE DE JACQUES DELILLE. Anales de Filología Francesa, 16. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/analesff/article/view/70891
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