Resumen de De la "Comparaison d’Homère et de Virgile" aux "Réflexions sur la poétique" de René Rapin: quelle place attribuer à Homère?
In his treaties, Comparaison d’Homère et de Virgile (1668), and Réflexions sur la poétique et sur les poètes anciens et modernes (1684), René Rapin invites French writers to imitate the greatnessof Latin and Greek literature and, specifically, the art of Homer and Virgil. In Comparaison, a work written on demand and his first critical essay, Rapin shows the superiority of Virgil, favouring his regularity. But in Réflexions, an independent work of intellectual mature reflexion, Rapin prefers Homer and his irregular but sublime and charming art of writing.
