Rigault, Hist.

de la querelle, p.

106.
The polemic of Saint Sorlin extended over about five years (1669-73).] He was also, like Boisrobert, a bad poet; that was another.

His thesis was that the history of Christianity offered subjects far more inspiring to a poet than those which had been treated by Homer and Sophocles, and that Christian poetry must bear off the palm from pagan.

His own Clovis and Mary Magdalene or the Triumph of Grace were the demonstration of Homer's defeat.