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Albion

poem by Saint-Amant

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  • In Marc-Antoine Girard, sieur de Saint-Amant

    …is seen, for example, in Albion (1643). This mock-heroic poem contains a disenchanted account of a visit to England and includes an informative description of the London theatres. His Rome ridicule (1649) started the fashion for burlesque poems that was to be developed later by Paul Scarron. Saint-Amant was a…

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