Racine

French dramatist. Lacordaire lists "the laments of Racine's Phaedra" among the greatest achievements of secular poetry, but sets them below the Miserere, Lamentations, and Isaiah.

Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship

• ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES. — Lacordaire lists "the laments of Racine's Phaedra" among the greatest achievements of secular poetry, but sets them below the Miserere, Lamentations, and Isaiah

  "the laments of Racine's Phaedra"