Fortunes et infortunes du précepte horatien utile dulci dans la littérature française: essai d'interprétation du Classicisme à la Modernité

Drawing on four famous verses of Horace's Epistle to Pisones (v. 333-334 and 343-344), criticism and literary practice transformed the poet into a benefactor of humanity who improves men by instructing and entertaining them. Our goal is to reveal-as in filigree and marking the transition from one era to another, from classicism to modernity-the deviations to which these verses have given rise.