Worms of company

Vers of company is a term which indicates the Poésie practiced in a social context or familiar with.

small worms of company of the writer - Imprimeur Charles de Pougens had much success in the living rooms of Paris and several of the rhymesters of the beginning of were known for their small skill to compose of towards on light subjects .

The prince of these amateurs of poetry badine was the abbot of Chaulieu which one said that it had made worms only for the recreation of his friends, without the least intention to see them published. The best of its poetic overflowings preserved a certain freshness because of the quality with which they are turned, but one can hardly say that they have some claim to be regarded as poetry. Inspired by incidents of the private life of the moment, they, for the majority, were addressed to some friends of high ranking, hardly less full with spirit than their author, such as the duke of Nevers, the marquis de Lassay, the duchess of Bubble or the marquis of Fare.

One finds, in the collections of works of Chaulieu which were very often reprinted, beside his clean towards, of the parts of small new worms of company by his friends who were often as well turned as them his. To be able to turn of such worms was indeed almost a sign of good birth. Titon of Tillet gathered of it a bulky number in its French Parnassus which gives an good idea of the degree of ingeniousness, artificiality and futility of the worms of company with.

The fashion of the worms of company followed the decline of the interest for ingeniousnesses of the Rondeau X, the Ballade S and the Villanelle S that Chaulieu itself had contributed much to make pass from mode. Its attack against Benserade which had gone until transforming the totality of the Métamorphoses of Ovide into rondos was, according to its editor of 1732, the first work to show the delicacy of the taste of the abbot of Chaulieu and its talent for poetry, but, in general, the poetic value of the efforts of the rhymesters in the small kinds was not very large.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau was that which had the most poetic talent among the authors of worms of company . It was a true poet whose Billet in Chaulieu is a jewel of significant charm and mischievousness.

References

Évrard Titon of Tillet. Parnassus Francois, follow-up of the Remarks on the poesy and the music and the excellence of these two fine arts with particular observations on the poesy and the music Francoise and on our spectacles , Paris, Jean-Baptiste Coignard wire, 1732; Geneva, Slatkine Reprints, 1971

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