Saint-Amant: Genre-Painter?

Christopher D. Rolfe

From Saint-Amant and the Theory of 'Ut Pictura Poesis' (1972), pp. 61-77, doi:10.59860/td.c38691d

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Christopher D. Rolfe

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Abstract.  A good number of those critics who have written on Saint-Amant have drawn attention to a kind of kinship which exists between certain of his poems, notably his humorous poems, and Flemish and Dutch paintings of the period.

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