DESMARETS DE SAINT SORLIN, Jean.

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DESMARETS DE SAINT SORLIN, Jean.
La Deffense du poëme héroïque, with some remarks on the satyric works of sieur D***. Dialogues in verse and prose. Paris, Jacques Le Gras, Nicolas Le Gras, Augustin Besoigne, Claude Audinet, 1674. In-4 (248 x 181 mm) de 5 ff.n.ch. dont le titre, 136 pp.; maroquin janséniste, cold fillet framing, central coat of arms of Louis François Armand duc de Richelieu (OHR, 407), spine ribbed, roulette on the cuts, gilt edges (contemporary binding). Original edition. "The quarrel between Boileau and Desmarets has the status of rootless poetry: it is a measure of the gap that has grown between the static reality of the great century and the dream of greatness that poets want to enchant themselves with" (Joseph Pineau, L'univers satirique de Boileau, p. 189). A fine copy bound with the arms of Louis François Armand, 3rd Duke of Richelieu, Officer of the Navy. Brunet, II, 635.
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