Antoine de Girard Saint-Amant

Poems by Antoine de Girard Saint-Amant

Antoine Girard, sieur de Saint-Amant (September 30, 1594 – December 29, 1661) was a French poet.

Saint-Amant was born near Rouen. His father was a merchant who had, according to his son's account, been a sailor and had commanded for 22 years 'une escadre de la reine Elizabeth' – a vague statement that lacks confirmation. The son obtained a patent of nobility, and attached himself to different great noblemen – the duc de Retz and the comte d'Harcourt among others. He saw military service and sojourned at different times in Italy, in England – a sojourn which provoked from him a violent poetical attack on the country, Albion (1643) – in Poland, where he held a court appointment for two years, and elsewhere. Saint-Amant's later years were spent in France; and he died at Paris.

Saint-Amant has left a considerable body of poetry. His Albion and Rome ridicule set the fashion of the burlesque poem. In his later years he devoted himself to serious subjects and produced an epic, Moyse sauvé (1653). His other work consists of Bacchanalian songs, his Débauche being one of the most remarkable convivial poems of its kind.

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  • Assis Sur Un Fagot, Une Pipe À La Main - Extract Read Poem
  • Fagoté Plaisamment Comme Un Vrai Simonnet - Extract Read Poem
  • Je Viens De Recevoir Une Belle Missive Read Poem
  • L'Amarante Read Poem
  • L'automne Des Canaries Read Poem
  • L'esté De Rome Read Poem
  • L'hyver Des Alpes Read Poem
  • La Débauche - Extract Read Poem
  • La Généreuse - Extract Read Poem
  • La Naissance De Pantagruel Read Poem
  • La Nuit - Extract Read Poem
  • La Plainte De Tirsis Read Poem
  • La Pluie Read Poem
  • La Rome Ridicule - EXTRACT Read Poem
  • La Solitude Read Poem
  • Le Contemplateur - Extract Read Poem
  • Le Déluge Read Poem
  • Le fromage Read Poem
  • Le Melon - Extract Read Poem
  • Le Palais De La Volupté Read Poem
  • Le Paresseux Read Poem
  • Le Poète Crotté - Extract Read Poem
  • Le Printemps Des Environs De Paris Read Poem
  • Le Soleil Levant Read Poem
  • Les Goinfres Read Poem
  • Les Visions - Extract Read Poem
  • Moïse sauvé - Extract Read Poem
  • Plainte Sur La Mort De Sylvie Read Poem
  • Sonnet À Feu M. Desyveteaux Read Poem
  • Sonnet inachevé Read Poem
  • Sonnet Sur Des Mots Qui N'ont Point De Rime Read Poem
  • Sonnet Sur La Moisson D'un Lieu Proche De Paris Read Poem
  • Voici Le Rendez-Vous Des Enfants Sans Souci Read Poem
  • Vos Attraits N'ont Plus Rien Que L'épée Et La Cape Read Poem