Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Standard Name: La Fontaine, Jean de
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Education | Ouida | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Gerard | This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre | She sometimes included newly-composed verse in her letters: poems for a young lady and for one of her grandsons; a Soliloquy Before my Glass (in which, instead of lamenting the effects of age, she pretends... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Finch | Although AF
is often thought of as a writer of pastoral, on account of the fame of A Noctural Reverie, this mode is fairly rare in her work. She is a very social poet.... |
Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | Jacqueline M. Labbe
, raising the question of why Smith chose at the end of her career to revive the old-fashioned genre of the fable (in her case bird fables), has noted her allusions to... |
Literary responses | Ruth Pitter | RP
hunted out a copy of this book to present to C. S. Lewis when they first met in July 1946, writing that she thought it, though only grotesque & satirical . . . my... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | About two years after her husband's death EPW
published, through Longman
, her first poetry collection: The Enchanted Flute, with Other Poems, and Fables from La Fontaine. The Bodleian Library
copy has La Fontaine's... |
Occupation | Bernard Mandeville | As a doctor, BM
had specialised in the treatment of hypochondriack and hysterick, that is nervous and psychiatric, disorders. After settling in England he became a writer as well: his first published work was... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Brontë | CB
's fable, almost certainly based on one by La Fontaine
and possibly also on another by J. P. Florian
, features a wise old rat, a former courtier living in retirement, and his son... |
Textual Production | Marie-Catherine de Villedieu | |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Thomas | |
Textual Production | Marianne Moore | |
Textual Production | Caroline Norton |
Timeline
1668: Jean de La Fontaine published his first collection...
Writing climate item
1668
Jean de La Fontaine
published his first collection of animal Fables.
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