Category Archives: Poet

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Christoph Fürer von Haimendorf 1663-1732

Christoph VII Fürer von Haimendorf auf Wolkersdorf (born July 11, 1663 in Haimendorf; † May 3, 1732 in Nuremberg), imperial councilor, councilor of the imperial city of Nuremberg, was a poet in the transitional period between the Baroque and Enlightenment. He translated, among other things, Works by Pierre Corneille and Torquato Tasso into German, was president of the Pegnesian Order of Flowers, a linguistic and literary society with a bucolic background, from 1709 under the pseudonym Lilidor I (the lily bearer, after the coat of arms of the Fürer von Haimendorf family).
Artist: Ulrich
Date:
Size 14 x 21 cms
Price £28.00

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Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636-1711

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, often known simply as Boileau, was a French poet and critic. He did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry, in the same way that Blaise Pascal did to reform the prose. He was greatly influenced by Horace.
Size 8.5 x 13 cms
Price £14.00

Ref:1914

Jean Rotrou 1609-1650

Jean Rotrou was a French poet and tragedian.
Artist: Durupt
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00

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Charles Francois Panard 1689-1765

Charles-François Panard, or Pannard, was an 18th-century French poet, chansonnier, playwright and goguettier
Artist: Du Roncerai
Date:
Size 18 x 26 cms
Price £28.00

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Christian Fürchtegott Gellert 1715-1769

German poet, one of the forerunners of the golden age of German literature that was ushered in by Lessing
Size 9 x 12 cms
Price £14.00

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Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon 1674 -1762 French poet

French poet and tragedian. He is sometimes known as Crébillon père or Crébillon le Tragique to distinguish him from his son Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon.
Artist: De la Tour
Date:
Size 19 x 27 cms
Price £28.00

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Johann Baptist von Alxinger 1755–1797

Austrian writer and poet during the Age of Enlightenment.
Size 9 x 13 cms
Price £14.00

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Michael Denis 1729-1800

Johann Nepomuk Cosmas Michael Denis, also: Sined the Bard, was an Austrian Catholic priest and Jesuit, who is best known as a poet, bibliographer, and lepidopterist.
Size 12.8 x 15 cms
Price £28.00

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Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon 1674-1762

Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon was a French poet and tragedian. He is sometimes known as Crébillon père or Crébillon le Tragique to distinguish him from his son Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
Size 10 x 16 cms
Price £28.00

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Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten 1758 -1818

Also known as Ludwig Theobul or Ludwig Theoboul, was a German poet and Lutheran preacher.
Size 11 x 15 cms
Price £28.00

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