Évariste PARNY - Œuvres - 1808

Évariste PARNY: Works

5 volumes

In-12 (16 x 10.5 cm). I-251 ; II-249 ; III-258 ; IV-228 ; V-232 pages.
Mahogany half-binding. Smooth spine adorned with four gilt raised bands (faux nerves), titles on brown labels.

At Debray, bookseller on Rue St-Honoré, in Paris in 1808.

Volume 1: Erotic poetry
Volume 2: The Disguises of Venus
Volume 3: Paradise Lost
Volume 4: The Rosicrucians, poems in 12 cantos
Volume 5: The War of the Gods

Beautiful print on laid paper.
good overall condition

Évariste Désiré de Forges, knight and later viscount of Parny, was a French poet born on February 6, 1753 in Saint-Paul on the island of Bourbon (now Réunion), and died on December 5, 1814 in Paris.
Parny's poetry was extremely popular at the beginning of the 19th century. 'I knew by heart the elegies of the Chevalier de Parny, and I still know them,' thus writes Chateaubriand in 1813 (Mémoires d'outre-tombe, Book IV, ch. 12).
The Russian writer Pushkin, who also wrote erotic poetry, held Parny in high esteem and said of him: "Parny is my master".
Parny became known for his Erotic Poems (1778), which bring a touch of freshness to the eighteenth-century academic poetry. He is also remembered for his Madagascan Songs (1787), in which he says he translates songs from Madagascar, and which are generally regarded as the first attempt at prose poetry in the French language. (Wikipedia)