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Part of the book: Voltaire's Disciple

Christopher Todd

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 7

Modern Humanities Research Association

EnlightenmentFrenchDramaopen

Abstract.  La Harpe was made for the polemics that surrounded the last twenty years of Voltaire's life. His belief in himself then gave him strength to act as the upholder of Voltairian purity after the latter's death. All in all, the faults and qualities of all his writings, his lack of originality as an artist as well as his prejudices as a critic, tell us far more about the period than would the highly personal productions or the calm impartial observations of a man who had not been in the thick of the fray.

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