French Poetry

French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.

Read more about French Poetry:  French Prosody and Poetics

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    Poetry, and Picture, are Arts of a like nature; and both are busie about imitation. It was excellently said of Plutarch, Poetry was a speaking Picture, and Picture a mute Poesie. For they both invent, faine, and devise many things, and accommodate all they invent to the use, and service of nature. Yet of the two, the Pen is more noble, than the Pencill. For that can speake to the Understanding; the other, but to the Sense.
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