French fable and epigram

Starting from antiquity, the fable and the epigram, side by side, made an amazing centuries -old marathon. Having reached France, they took one of the most honorable places on her Olympus. Back in the XV century. Compiled a well -known epigramatic epitaph of Francois Viion. Comigraman Maro, who continued the old traditions in poetry and combined them with new trends in poetry, actually opened the epigram and fable. In the next XVII century, Lafontaine became the best fable of all time, and the great playwrights of Rasin, Cornell and the satirist Boailo surpassed everyone in the epigram. In the XVIII, the “golden century” of the French epigram, Voltaire, J.-B. Rousseau, Pyron, and the honor of the fable defended Florian, in the 19th century the swan-pindar was not inferior to the witches, in the fable of the new moves, Antoine Arno found, in the twentieth century, the largest poet Apolliner presented several good acutecities, and the bell of dramaturgy, Jean Anuy, issued a whole book of his innovative fables. Both genres, fables and epigrams recognized by pearls of French literature.
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Translator
Vasiliev V.
Publisher
Science, 2014
Series
Library of a foreign poet