Ingénu Mythe Du Bon Sauvage

CLASSICAL AGE 89 The result was a model of excellence which defined not only the language of culture but the nature and form of literature. Principles and rules Few challenged the view that poetry should be, as Rapin remarked, ‘une leçon de bonnes moeurs pour le peuple’. But it was no less true, as he further observed, that ‘la morale doit se rendre agréable pour être écoutée’. But pleasing did not mean surrendering to the imagination, a source of wild fancy irreconcilable with order, gravity