Les trois versions de la "Lettre d'Abailard à Héloïse" de Dorat
ISSN: 0213-2958
Year of publication: 2009
Issue Title: Poesías
Issue: 17
Pages: 339-366
Type: Article
More publications in: Anales de filología francesa
Abstract
Between 1758 and 1766, the young Claude-Joseph Dorat wrote successively three different versions of an Abelardo�s Letter to Eloisa. The public appreciated this new gender, the �héroïde�, narrating love affaires and expressing sensitivity in person first. The reading of these three versions allows us to follow Dorat�s requirements with himself both in content and in poetic expression.