Abstract:Saisons has long met with disaffection from critics because of the very originality of its composition. The economic, social, and political ideas that Saint-Lambert had previously developed in the Encyclopédie modernize the classical framework of the Horatian and Virgilian pastoral in its pages. This study of the close ties between his economic thought and his poetic inspiration also underlines the tension that characterizes his century, between participation in progress and retrograde temptations.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
EAN:9782406070597
ISBN:978-2-406-07059-7
ISSN: 2105-2689
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-07059-7.p.0003
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 08-10-2017
Periodicity: Quarterly
Language: French
Keyword: eighteenth-century literature, the spirit of the Enlightenment, pastoral poetry, antiquity, myth of Nature, international trade, Colbertism, prosopopoeia, allegory
