Following on the footsteps of Horace's 'Ars Poetica', Boileau's 'Art of Poetry' lays down, in four books dealing with all forms and genres of poetry, the codes and rules for good versification.

This book makes a superb shelf reference for anybody working in psycholinguistics, first- and second-language acquisition, and the syntactic study of French...and draws some fascinating conclusions about what might really be at play in ...