 |
| When lips are sealed to lips, and heart to heart / ’Tis tyranny, not law, such love to part. |
| —Polyeucte. Act. V. |
Pierre
Corneille |
|
 |
| Pierre Corneille |
| |
| 1606–84, French dramatist, ranking with Racine as a master of French classical tragedy.… Corneille’s tragedies exalt the will at the expense of the emotions; his tragic heroes and heroines display almost superhuman strength in subordinating passion to duty. At his best, Corneille was a master of the grand style, powerful and majestic.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.) |
| |
Pronunciation:  kôr-n ´ from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
| |
|
| |
- WORKS
-
- Polyeucte
Corneille’s great religious tragedy. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXVI, Part 2.
-
- Corneille, Pierre, 14977 to 15082
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
|
|
|
|
