La deffense du poëme heroïque [microforme] : avec quelques remarques sur les Oeuvres satyrique du sieur D... dialogue en vers et en prose

Desmarets de Saint Sorlin, Jean, 1595-1676, Desmarets de Saint Sorlin, Jean, 1595-1676. Esther; poëme heroïque · 1674 · Paris : J. Le Gras · 6 pictures

A 1674 Paris polemic in French verse and prose by Jean Desmarets de Saint Sorlin, defending his heroic poem Esther against Boileau's satires, printed by J. Le Gras for a literary readership. The pictures are blurred, high-contrast scans: a printed text page with a decorative initial, a dark scrollwork ornament of serpent-like forms, a framed panel with two putti flanking a cross-like emblem, and a title page with a large capital D. A designer might take the dense, bleed-heavy letterpress texture and the ornamental fleuron motifs.

Boileau Despréaux, Nicolas, 1636-1711 · Poésie épique française

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