Figures du poète dans Les Saisons de Saint-Lambert

Studying the figures of the poet in Saint-Lambert’s Les Saisons allows us to comprehend the tensions that pervade the text, or the hesitations between different aesthetic choices: while Les Saisons is fully in line with the conventions of the descriptive poem, which is inspired by philosophy and science, the work occasionally surpasses the genre, becoming the site of expression of emotions aroused by the experience of a landscape—paving the way for the lyric poetry of the nineteenth century.