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Delille, Jacques

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A French poet, born at Aigues Perse, in Auvergne; translator of the "Georgics" of Virgil into verse, afterwards the "Æneid" and "Paradise Lost," besides producing also certain didactic and descriptive works; was a good versifier, but properly no poet, and much overrated; died blind (1738-1813).

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Delille, Jacques'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​d/delille-jacques.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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