Served as a model to sundry writers after the Restoration as Dorset, Sedley. His letters and poems were considered by the critics of his own day as models of grace, but were marred by affectation. His style was greatly admired by Pope and Boileau.
VOLKSLIEDER. (People's Songs.) 14th-16th century.
Many of the Volkslieder have been translated in single poems in various anthologies. See 'German Anthologies,' etc.
VOLTAIRE, AROUET DE, FRANÇOISE MARIE. b. 1694, d. 1778. French philosopher and writer.
ANNALS OF THE EMPIRE FROM THE TIME OF CHARLEMAGNE. Tr. by D. Williams, H. Dowman, etc. 1781.
ANTI-MACHIAVEL. Tr. 1752.
BABOUC; or, THE WORLD AS IT GOES. Tr. 1754.
CANDIDUS; or, ALL FOR THE BEST. (1756.) Tr. 1759.
One of the 'Philosophical Romances'.
CRITICAL ESSAY ON DRAMATIC POETRY. Tr. 1760.