Poésie fugitive

The Poésie fugitive ("fleeting poetry", also: Poésie légère , "light poetry") is a collective name for the small poems of the Rococo in France . Her role models are Horace , whose carpe diem became the poet's motto of the serene enjoyment of life and whose lyrical forms such as ode and epistle were taken up again, anacreon and ancient bucolic , from which she took the themes - partly conveyed through the shepherd's poetry . Unlike the German sensitive anacreontic , it is often frivolous, erotic, ironic or satirical .

It emerged towards the end of the 17th century as a result of Pierre Gassendi's Epicurean materialism . Important circles that cultivated the Poésie fugitive were the Salon of the Ninon de Lenclos and the Société du Temple , a libertine circle of nobles and poets around the Duke of Vendôme and his brother, who met in the Paris district of Le Temple .

The main representatives of the Poésie fugitive were Chapelle , Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu , Charles Auguste de La Fare , the young Voltaire , Anthony Hamilton , and also the so-called Petits maîtres Jean-Baptiste de Grécourt , Alexis Piron , François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis , Jean Baptiste de Gresset and Gentil-Bernard .

literature

• Nicole Masson: La poésie fugitive au XVIIIe siècle (Les dix-huitièmes siècles; vol. 66). Champion, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-7453-0511-5 .
• Walter Moser: De la signification d'une poésie insignifiante. Examination of the "poésie fugitive" from XVIIIe siècle et de ses reports avec la pensée sensualiste en France . Edition Juris, Zurich 1972 (also dissertation, University of Zurich).