Oeuvres diverses du sieur D*** Despreaux 1680

Despreaux, Nicolas Boileau.

Rare Literature 1680 | Oeuvres diverses du sieur D*** avec le traité du sublime ou du merveilleux dans le discours, traduit du Grec de Longin, nouvelle edition, by Nicolas Boileau Despreaux, Amsterdam Abraham Wolfgang 1680, Duodecimo, 12º edition, 314+(10) pp. Complete copy. Engravings by Hendrick Cause.

Name: Rare Literature 1680 | Oeuvres diverses du sieur D*** avec le traité du sublime ou du merveilleux dans le discours, traduit du Grec de Longin, nouvelle edition, by Nicolas Boileau Despreaux, Amsterdam Abraham Wolfgang 1680, Duodecimo, 12º edition, 314+(10) pp. Complete copy. Engravings by Hendrick Cause.
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Full leather binding with some wear, especially on the spine. Hinges weak. Duodecimo, 12º edition, 15 x 9,5 cm. Frontispiece by H. Canse with the text ‘Utiledulci’ and at the bottom: Oeuvres diverses du sieur D***. Interior in good condition, due to the weak hinges a small gap between p. 24 and 25. A small tear in p. 103. This is the nouvelle edition: corrected enlarged edition. Complete copy: frontispiece and 4 engravings by Hendrick Cause (known from the Koninglycke Hovenier uit 1676).

Content: Satires et lettres, Discours sur la Satire, Epistre, L’Art poetique en vers, Le Lutrin poeme Heroique, Traite su Sublime ou du Merveilleux dans le discours, Remarques.

The book deals with l’Art poétique, the imitation of Horace’s Ars Poetice. It also contains several satires, among which an imitation of Juvenals satire. The book is an early illustrated Dutch edition of the work of the French poet, translator and critic Nicolas Boileau-Despreéaux (1636-1711). The title refers to the sublime (het sublieme) in poetry and rhetoric (retorica en poezie). The greek original is written by the Greek writer Longin, Longinus. Longinus treatise ‘Peri Hypsous’ dealt with the idea of sublimity and its theoretical repercussions. Boileua’s publication is not so much as a translation as a shift in understanding the Longinian sublime, for Boileau shifted its dominant association with the style of discourse towards the extraordinary quality and effect of discourse. Boileau emphasises that Longinus’ understanding of the sublime differs from the idea of the sublime style (or “Stile Sublime”), the highest of the three rhetorical styles in Ancient Rhetoric. (bron: F.J.L.C. Knegtel, Constructing the Sublime: a discourse on architecture and Louis XIV’s Sublimity in Seventeenth-Century Paris, 2019).

French poetry – Longinus – on the sublime – Longin – Poesie Francaise – The sublime – Greek language and literature

SKU: BB110322

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