Description
Book SynopsisThis is the first critical edition of Les Marguerites, poemes heroique, a volume originally published in Bordeaux in 1676. Written in alexandrines, divided into five cantos (chants), Les Marguerities offers a fascinating example of playful contemporary poetic taste where epic heroism is transformed into gallantry.
Trade Review
“The work will certainly interest dix-septiémistes, not least for its sophisticated views on the relationship between art and nature and on the representation of perspective.” (Modern Language Review, Volume 97 No. 2, 2002)
Table of Contents
Frontispice, II; INTRODUCTION; L'auteur, VII; Le temps des Marguerites, X; Les Marguerites de Cantenac; une salutaire meditation sur les dures Destinees des Marguerites, XI; un poeme heroique, XVI; un poeme galant d'heroisme tendre, XVIII; Note sur l'etablissement du texte, XX; BIBLIOGRAPHIE; OEuvres attribuees a J. Benech de Cantenac, XXI; Elements de bibliographie generale, XXVII; Etudes sur Cantenac, XXX; LES MARGUERITES; Dedicace a Mademoiselle F, 3; Chant premier, 5; Chant II, 11; Chant III, 23; Chant IV, 30; Chant V, 42.
