The Religious Conceptions of Lamartine in Les Permieres Mediatations Poetiques and Les Nouvelles Mediations

Author

Anita Ewens, Marquette University

Date of Award

6-1928

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Literatures, Languages, and Cultures

First Advisor

Joseph Medard Carriere

Second Advisor

John McCormic

Abstract

Two main impulses discernible throughout French literature have been the inspiration of the greatest masterpieces of the French language, namely - love of diction and sound reason. These were the predominant characteristics of the litterati in the seventeenth century. With the advent of the Romantic move­ment we have a momentous reaction against the cold reason found rampant in the prose of Voltaire. In other words, Romanticism was a complete break from the artificial formal expression of the Classicists. Boileau's "Art Poetique" with its rigorous and exacting rules governed verse, structure and style. Now all was to change. Romanticists demanded of imagination, assertion of the rights of individuals to express ideas and fancies in such a way as seemed most befitting to them. Poets and prose writers alike sought for words that were at once colorful and, concrete.

Comments

A Thesis submitted partially to fulfill the requirements for The Degree of Bachelor of Arts

Recommended Citation

Ewens, Anita, "The Religious Conceptions of Lamartine in Les Permieres Mediatations Poetiques and Les Nouvelles Mediations" (1928). Bachelors’ Theses. 513.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/513