For Shakespeare's group of Henry plays, see Henriad.
Henriade
Cover of La Henriade
Author
Voltaire
Original title
La Henriade
Language
French
Genre
Epic poem
Publication date
1723
Publication place
Kingdom of France
La Henriade is an epic poem of 1723 written by the French Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire. According to Voltaire himself, the poem concerns and was written in honour of the life of Henry IV of France, and is a celebration of his life.[1] The ostensible subject is the siege of Paris in 1589 by Henry III in concert with Henry of Navarre, soon to be Henry IV, but its themes are the twin evils of religious fanaticism and civil discord. It also concerns the political state of France. Voltaire aimed to be the French Virgil, outdoing the master by preserving Aristotelian unity of place—a property of classical tragedy rather than epic—by keeping the human action confined between Paris and Ivry. It was first printed (under the title La Ligue) in 1723, and reprinted dozens of times within Voltaire's lifetime.
La Henriade is an epic poem of 1723 written by the French Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire. According to Voltaire himself, the poem concerns...
four plays as analogous to Homer's Illiad, Virgil's Aeneid, Voltaire's Henriade, and Milton's Paradise Lost. The action of the Henriad follows the dynastic...
written in French, the Henriade, and later, The Maid of Orleans, besides many other smaller pieces.[citation needed] The Henriade was written in imitation...
par lui-m^eme. Commentaire historique sur les œuvres de l'auteur de la Henriade. Choix de pièces justificatives pour La vie de Voltaire Correspondance...
Cuthbertson (1975) selects a wider range of epic, from Gilgamesh to Voltaire's Henriade, but his central theme—that myths encode mechanisms of cultural dynamics...
der historische: Roman Parallelen, Transformationen, Kontraste in der Henriade und bei Edith Pargeter, Denise Giardina, Robert Nye". AAA: Arbeiten aus...
Smith; deaths of Susanna Centlivre and Marianna Alcoforado; – Voltaire, La Henriade; 1724 in literature – The Reform'd Coquet by Mary Davys; Roxana: The Fortunate...
Voltaire attempted a similar work for French mythologised history in the Henriade (1723). Wagnerian opera came to foster German national enthusiasm. Modern...
French, 2000. Poets using Auvergnat: Louis Delhostal (1877–1933) Faucon, La Henriade de Voltaire, mise en vers burlesques par Faucon, Riom; 1798; Le Conte des...
Voltaire (1901) [1734]. "On the Existence of God". The Works of Voltaire: The Henriade: Letters and miscellanies. Vol. XXI. trans. William F. Fleming. Werner...
Seward (epic re-telling of François Fénelon's Les Aventures de Télémaque) Henriade by Voltaire (1723) Utendi wa Tambuka by Bwana Mwengo (1728) Der Messias...
and energy the most distinguished. His worst is the "Commentaire sur la Henriade" (1775), a very model of inept, pathetic criticism. Traité sur la tolérance...
Western writers, for example Vasile Pogor's translation of Voltaire's La Henriade, became more frequent with this generation. The main contribution to the...
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