ppears to have been a person of a very amiable and simple character; his conversation was full of a childlike gaiety, and his writings are always moral and pious; but with all his beauty of versification, and occasional felicity of expression, he yet shows, in his latter works especially, a great ignorance of the line of distinction between prose and poetry.

Delille has left behind him little prose. His preface to the translation of the Georgics is an able essay, and contains many excellent hints on the art and the difficulties of translation. He wrote the article La Bruyère in the Biographie Universelle. The following is the list of his poetical works: Les Georgiques de Virgile, traduites en vers Français, Paris, 1769, 1782, 1785, 1809. Les Jardins, en quatre chants, 1780; nouvelle edition, Londres, 1800; Paris, 1802. L'Hommes des Champs, ou les Georgiques Francaises, 1800. Poésies Fugitives, 1802. A collection given under the title of Poésies Decrees, 1801, was disavowed by Delille. Dithyrambe sur l'Immortalité de l'Ame, suivi du passage du Saint Gothard; poème traduit de l'Anglais de Madame la Duchesse de Devonshire, 1802. La Pitié; poème en quatre chants. Londres et Paris, 1803. L'Enéide de Virgile, traduite en vers Français, 1805. L'Imagination, poème en huit chants, 1806. Les Trois Règnes de la Nature, 1809. La Conception, 1812.