Belles lettres literary works, esp essays and poetry, valued for their aesthetic qualities (i.e. the visual formations, or the beauty of the language) rather than their informative or moral content.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia says that Belles Lettres is the department of literature which implies literary culture and belongs to the domain of art, whatever the subject may be or the special form; it includes poetry, the drama, fiction, and criticism. The Nuttall Encyclopaedia is an early 20th century encyclopedia, edited by Rev. ... Open Directory Project: Literature World Literature Electronic Text Archives Magazines and E-zines Online Writing Writers Resources Libraries, Digital Cataloguing, Metadata Distance Learning Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Classicism in Literature The Universal Library, by Carnegie Mellon University Project Gutenberg Online Library Abacci - Project Gutenberg texts matched with Amazon...
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It was carnival time, and so to give the ladies some diversion, they betook themselves to the reciting of verses, sonnets, speeches, first extempore, and afterwards premeditately, which gave them the denomination of Belli Humori.
In 1690 the Academy or Society of arcadians was established at Rome, for the purpose of reviving the study of poetry.
His Lettres provincials were published anonymously; and just when his fame was rising he retired to Port-Royal, where he lived the life of a recluse.
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