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Jean de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine is one of the famous poets, known above all for his Fables.
"The life of this celebrated fabulist is marked by fewer incidents than the generality even of literary lives. Unambitious, indolent, "simple, " it has been said, "as the heroes of his own fables, " and subject to the most whimsical lapses of thought and memory, his habitual state was a sort of abstracted ruminating quietism, roused from which, he amused by his singularities, or delighted by his inspirations.
He lived almost a stranger to the literary disputes of his time..."
He lived almost a stranger to the literary disputes of his time..."
Jean de La Fontaine is one of the famous poets, known above all for his Fables.
"The life of this celebrated fabulist is marked by fewer incidents than the generality even of literary lives. Unambitious, indolent, "simple, " it has been said, "as the heroes of his own fables, " and subject to the most whimsical lapses of thought and memory, his habitual state was a sort of abstracted ruminating quietism, roused from which, he amused by his singularities, or delighted by his inspirations.
He lived almost a stranger to the literary disputes of his time..."
He lived almost a stranger to the literary disputes of his time..."
