Charles-Pierre Colardeau [SEP] native language
Charles-Pierre Colardeau
Charles-Pierre Colardeau (12 October 1732 in Janville – 7 April 1776 in Paris) was a French poet. His most notable works are an imitation of "Eloisa to Abelard" by Alexander Pope and a translation of the first two sections of "Night-Thoughts" by Edward Young. They witness to the pre-Romantic sensibility of the 18th century, as also seen in the works of Rousseau, Diderot and Prévost. He also naturalized Ovid's term. "Heroides", as '
-François Coyer's (1707-1782); by the Duchesse d’Aiguillon (1700–72), published from Geneva in 1758; and in the December 1773 issue of the "Mercure de France" by Dattin de Chartres. In verse the pioneering work was a very free version by Charles-Pierre Colardeau (Paris 1756).) More an adaptation in alexandrines, it retained its popularity over the following decades “despite its high-flown language and impersonal tone, its languor, its elegant circumlocutions and conventional epithets”. Its