Corneille
With rare exceptions, English and American views of Corneille derive from that documentary approach that is more interested in a writer''s times than in the writer. Perhaps more than any other major French writer, Corneille must be resurrected from the mass of documentation that has accumulated about him in nearly three centuries of criticism.
Dr. Nelson''s study, in line with much recent French cr...
With rare exceptions, English and American views of Corneille derive from that documentary approach that is more interested in a writer''s times than in the writer. Perhaps more than any other major French writer, Corneille must be resurrected from the mass of documentation that has accumulated about him in nearly three centuries of criticism.
Dr. Nelson''s study, in line with much recent French cr...
