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BENSERADE, ISAAC DE (1613—1691)

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BENSERADE, ISAAC DE (1613—1691)

BENSERADE, See also:
ISAAC (Hebrew for " he laughs," on explanatory references to the name, see ABRAHAM)
ISAAC DE (1613—1691) , See also:

French poet, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

Paris, and baptized on the 5th of See also:

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1613. His See also:

FAMILY

family appears to have been connected with See also:

Richelieu, who bestowed on him a See also:

PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension of 600 livres. He began his See also:

LITERARY

literary career with the tragedy of See also:

CLEOPATRA

Cleopatra (1635), which was followed by four other in-different pieces. On Richelieu's See also:

DEATH

death Benserade lost his pension, but became more and more a favourite at See also:

court, especially with See also:

Anne of See also:

Austria. He provided the words for the court ballets, and was, in 1674, admitted to the See also:

Academy, where he wielded an See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence quite out of proportion to the merit of his See also:

WORK

work. In 1676 the failure of his Metamorphoses d'Ovide in the See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of rondeaux gave a See also:

BLOW, JOHN (1648-1708)

blow to his reputation, but by no means destroyed his See also:

VOGUE, EUGENE MELCHIOR, COMTE DE (1848- )

vogue with his contemporaries. Benserade would probably be forgotten but for his See also:

SONNET (Ital. Sonetto, dim. of Suono, Fr. Sonnet)

sonnet on See also:

Job (1651). This sonnet, which he sent to a See also:

young See also:

LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

lady with his See also:

PARAPHRASE (Gr. irapa¢pavis, from rrapa4p4av, to relate something in different words, 'raga, beside, and ¢pai"eav, speak, tell)

paraphrase on Job, having been placed in competition with the Urania of Voiture, a dispute on their relative merits See also:

long divided the whole court and the wits into two parties, styled respectively the Jobelins and the Uranists. The partisans of Benserade were headed by the See also:

prince de See also:

Conti and Mlle de See also:

SCUDERY

Scudery, while Mme de See also:

MONTAUSIER, CHARLES DE

Montausier and J. G. de See also:

Balzac took the See also:

side of Voiture. Some years before his death, on the loth of See also:

OCTOBER

October 1691, Benserade retired to See also:

CHANTILLY

Chantilly, and devoted himself to a See also:

TRANSLATION

translation of the See also:

Psalms, which he nearly completed.

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