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Irish or
France).
Events
English poet
Matthew Prior, while a secretary in the English embassy in
France (since 1697), mentions in letters that he has been dining with
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, a critic and poet (greatly admired in England for his verse) whose poems Prior had lampooned in
1695 and would again satirize in
1704. "Boileau says I have more genius than all the academy," Prior wrote to
Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey in July. Villiers replied, "If you don't come quickly away, Boileau and that flattering country will spoil you." In his 1704 satire, Prior wrote:[1]
John Hopkins, Milton's Paradise Lost imitated in Rhyme. In the Fourth, Sixth, and Ninth Books: Containing the Primitive Loves. The Battel of the Angels. The Fall of Man
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France).
Events
English poet
Matthew Prior, while a secretary in the English embassy in
France (since 1697), mentions in letters that he has been dining with
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, a critic and poet (greatly admired in England for his verse) whose poems Prior had lampooned in
1695 and would again satirize in
1704. "Boileau says I have more genius than all the academy," Prior wrote to
Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey in July. Villiers replied, "If you don't come quickly away, Boileau and that flattering country will spoil you." In his 1704 satire, Prior wrote:[1]
John Hopkins, Milton's Paradise Lost imitated in Rhyme. In the Fourth, Sixth, and Ninth Books: Containing the Primitive Loves. The Battel of the Angels. The Fall of Man