Jean de La Fontaine (UK/ˌlæfɒnˈtɛn,-ˈteɪn/,[1]US/ˌlɑːfɒnˈteɪn,lə-,ˌlɑːfoʊnˈtɛn/,[2][3] bahasa Prancis: [ʒɑ̃d(ə)lafɔ̃tɛn]; 8 Juli 1621 – 13 April 1695) adalah seorang dabulis Prancis dan salah satu penyair Prancis yang paling dikenal pada abad ke-17. Ia dikenal karena membuat Fabel, yang menyediakan model untuk para fabulis pada masa berikutnya di seluruh belahan Eropa dan sejumlah versi alternatif di Prancis, dan dalam rumpun bahasa wilayah Prancis.
Young La Fontaine: A Study of His Artistic Growth in His Early Poetry and First Fables, by Philip A. Wadsworth. Pub. Northwestern University Press, 1952.
Oeuvres diverses de Jean de La Fontaine, edited by Pierre Clarac. Pub. Gallimard ("Bibliothèque de la Pléiade"), 1958. The standard, fully annotated edition of LF's prose and minor poetry.
O Muse, fuyante proie ...: essai sur la poésie de La Fontaine, by Odette de Mourgues. Pub. Corti, 1962. Seminal.
Le Monde littéraire de La Fontaine, by Jean-Pierre Collinet. Pub. PUF, 1970
The Esthetics of Negligence: La Fontaine's Contes, by John C. Lapp. Pub. Cambridge University Press, 1971.
[La Fontaine] l'Esprit Créateur 21.4 (1981); guest-editor: David Lee Rubin.
Patterns of Irony in the Fables of La Fontaine, by Richard Danner. Pub. Ohio University Press, 1985.
La Fontaine: Fables, 2 volumes, edited by Marc Fumaroli. Pub. Imprimerie Nationale, 1985. Brilliant introductory essays and notes on texts.
La Fontaine, by Marie-Odile Sweetser. Pub. G.K. Hall (Twayne World Authors Series 788), 1987.
Oeuvres complètes de Jean de La Fontaine: Fables et Contes, edited by Jean-Pierre Collinet. Pub. Gallimard ("Bibliothèque de la Pléiade"), 1991. The standard fully annotated edition of these works.
A Pact with Silence: Art and Thought in the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, by David Lee Rubin. Pub. Ohio State U Press, 1991.
La Fabrique des Fables, by Patrick Dandrey. Pub. Klincksieck, 1991.
Figures of the Text: Reading and Writing (in) La Fontaine, by Michael Vincent. Pub. John Benjamins (Purdue University Monographs in Romance Literatures), 1992.
La Fontaine's Bawdy: Of Libertines, Louts, and Lechers, selections from Contes et nouvelles en vers, transl. Norman Shapiro. Pub. Princeton University Press, 1992; repr. Black Widow Press, forthcoming.
Lectures de La Fontaine, by Jules Brody. Pub. Rookwood Press, 1995.
Refiguring La Fontaine: Tercentenary Essays, edited by Anne L. Birberick. Pub. Rookwood Press, 1996.
Reading Under Cover: Audience and Authority in Jean La Fontaine, by Anne L. Birberick. Pub. Bucknell University Press, 1998.
Cognitive Space and Patterns of Deceit in La Fontaine's Contes, by Catherine M. Grisé. Pub: Rookwood Press, 1998.
In La Fontaine's Labyrinth: a Thread through the Fables, by Randolph Paul Runyon. Pub. Rookwood Press, 2000.
Poet and the King: Jean de La Fontaine and His Century, by Marc Fumaroli; Jean Marie Todd (transl.). Pub. University of Notre Dame, 2002.
The Shape of Change: Essays on La Fontaine and Early Modern French Literature in Honor of David Lee Rubin, edited by Anne L. Birberick and Russell J. Ganim. Pub. Rodopi, 2002.
La Fontaine à l'école républicaine: Du poète universel au classique scolaire, by Ralph Albanese, Jr. Pub. Rookwood Press 2003.
The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, Norman Shapiro (transl.). Pub. University of Illinois Press, 2007.
La Fontaine's Complete Tales in Verse, An Illustrated And Annotated Translation, by Randolph Paul Runyon. Pub. McFarland & Company, 2009.
The Fables, by Jean de La Fontaine, Jupiter Books, London, 1975, [In French and English]....ISBN0 904041 26 3...
(Prancis)Fables choisies. Par Mr De la Fontaine, [cinquiéme partie], a Paris, chez Claude Barbin, au Palais, sur le second Perron de la Sainte Chapelle, 1694
(Prancis)Oeuvres de J. de La Fontaine d'après les textes originaux suivies d'une Notice sur sa Vie & ses Ouvrages, d'une Étude bibliographique, de Notes, de Variantes & d'un Glossaire par Alphonse Pauly de la Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, éditeur, 1875–1891: vol. 1, vol. 2, [vol. 3], vol. 4, [vol. 5], vol. 6, [vol. 7].
(Prancis)Oeuvres de J. de la Fontaine. Nouvelle édition revue sur les plus anciennes impressions et les autographes et augmentée de variantes, de notices, de notes, d'un lexique des mots et locutions remarquables, de portraits, de fac-simile, etc. par M. Henri Regnier, Paris, Librairie Hachette et cie., 1883–92: vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 4, vol. 5, vol. 6, [vol. 7], vol. 8, [vol. 9], vol. 10, vol. 11, album.
juga dikenal sebagai: Tantrakhyayika — Panchakhyana — Kalila and Dimna — The Lights of Canopus — The Fables of Bidpai/Pilpay — The Moral Philosophy of Doni — Tantri Kamandaka — Nandaka-prakarana