Corneille and Racine may seem like marble monuments of an unchanging typical classicism. Mr Pocock is concerned to show that each of these great dramatists was a living writer, struggling to create developing forms and that the rules of neo-classical decorum were a strait-jacket to them.
Boileau has traditionally been regarded as the spokesman of French neo-classicism but some elements of scholarship have discounted the importance of neo-classical doctrine in general and of Boileau's particular contribution to it. Pocock examines Boileau's commitment to French neo-classicism and his embodiment of it in his work.
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