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Jean Jacques Racine : plays

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 8 September 1830: 'I have been reading lately with my brothers some of Racine's plays [...] It is several years since I read them by myself; and if they disgusted me then, they are intolerable to me now. The French have no part or lot in poetry [goes on to complain of what she perceives to be excessive formality and orderliness of French neoclassical poetry]'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett and younger Moulton-Barrett brothers     Print: Book

Jean Jacques Racine : plays

Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 8 September 1830: 'I have been reading lately with my brothers some of Racine's plays [...] It is several years since I read them by myself; and if they disgusted me then, they are intolerable to me now. The French have no part or lot in poetry [goes on to complain of what she perceives to be excessive formality and orderliness of French neoclassical poetry]'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

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