← Nicolas BoileauL'Art Poetiqueby Nicolas BoileauCritical treatise codifying rules of French neoclassical poetry and good tasteFind on Amazon↗About the authorNicolas BoileauFrench poet and critic whose L'Art Poetique codified neoclassical literary doctrine and influenced European letters for a century. He was the arbiter of French Augustan taste.More by Nicolas BoileauSatiresSatirical verses attacking literary and social follies with caustic wit and irony→EpitresEpistolary poems addressing philosophical and literary topics with formal grace→Le LutrinMock-heroic poem about ridiculous dispute between clergy over liturgical privileges→