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French priest and poet (1738-1813)
Also known as: Jacques Delille, Delille, Jacques Monanier Delille, Жак Делиль, 자크 들릴, ジャック・ドリル
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Jean François de Saint-Lambert1716–1803ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHis descriptive nature poem Les Saisons shares Delille's polished alexandrines and rural didactic themes. (AI reason)
Jean-Antoine Roucher1745–1794ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetLes Mois is a sweeping descriptive-didactic poem on the calendar and nature in the same late-eighteenth-century French manner. (AI reason)
James Thomson1700–1748ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetThe Seasons pioneered the descriptive landscape poem that French didactic poets like Delille emulated. (AI reason)
Virgil-69–-18ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetThe Georgics, which Delille translated, is the model for his agricultural and garden poetry. (AI reason)
René Rapin1620–1687ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHis Latin poem Hortorum libri IV treats garden design in didactic verse, directly paralleling Les Jardins. (AI reason)
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William Cowper1731–1800ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetThe Task blends rural description, gardening and moral reflection in a meditative verse style. (AI reason)
Alexander Pope1688–1744ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetPolished neoclassical verse, didactic epistles and reflections on landscape taste align with Delille's style. (AI reason)
Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian1755–1794ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetGraceful pastoral and fable writing of the same era appeals to readers of elegant rural verse. (AI reason)
Évariste de Parny1753–1814ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetRefined late-eighteenth-century French verse with a smooth, harmonious diction. (AI reason)
Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun1729–1807ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetNeoclassical French poetry of the same period, including odes on nature and the natural sciences. (AI reason)
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- The garden, or, The art of laying out grounds
- The gardens
- I giardini
- Parallèle raisonné entre les deux poèmes des jardins du père Rapin et de M. l'abb de Lille
- Œuvres choisies de Delille ..