... which will one day display to us what the heritage of Greece and Rome constituted in its rich vigor and variety during the nine- teenth century in France. Her book takes its place in the context of the stud- ies stemming from Canat and I’eyre. It is sympathetic to Sainte-Beuve...

...J. C. Chessex Saint-John de Crèvecoeur. Avec une Introduction par Howard C. Rice. Pp. 53. Sainte-Beuve. Avec une Introduction par Gilbert Chinard. Pp. 43. Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 Robert E. Fitch 121 fore...

... attacking the one and defending the other; most of the arguments are based on the relative truth of Rousseau’s Confessions and Mme d’fipinay’s Mkmoires. Sainte- Beuve, the first major critic to confront the two works in order to seek the truth concerning the relations between the two authors...

.... 3 Histowe de la httbrature ancienne et moderne, par F. Schlegel, trad. par W Duckett (Paris, Gedve, 1829), 11, 248. 153 154 Attitude of Gkrard de Nerval Toward Ronsard Malherbe? Here he quotes Sainte-Beuve “qui attribue B l’6cole de Ronsard, et non...

... takes its place in the context of the stud- ies stemming from Canat and I’eyre. It is sympathetic to Sainte-Beuve but not adulatory, and very well researched, but so well organized that the masses of data fall easily and naturally into place. ‘I’his is no mean task, as the volume...

... presidential address before the Virgil Society: Aachen, the seat of Charlemagne, restorer of the holy Roman order, had been retaken. This day had been chosen because of Virgil’s birthday, “on, or near the Fifteenth of October,” a day Charles-­Augustin Sainte-­Beuve says has long been “religiously...

... masters are Johnson and Sainte-Beuve, and he is worthy of their difficult examples here. The outstanding characteristic of Bate’s John Keats is its Johnsonian sanity, which shows everywhere, but most gracefully in the critical readings of the poems. Allied to this is Bate’s passion for what Sainte...

.... Sainte-Beuve was to chide him pleasantly for it a hundred years later: “Vivez donc quatre-vingt-sept ans et en homme de vCritC,” commented Sainte- Beuve, “pour 4tre au surlendemain de votre mort, riduit d’un trait de plume h l’itat de fable If we mention this boutade, it is largely be- cause...

... personality of the very first order. Yet it was not easy to characterize Du Bos as a critic. The author has wisely adopted the method and the manner of his model. He has granted as little as possible to outward biography, dear to Sainte-Beuve, but rejected, with undeni- able gain, by most...

... of The Buik of Alexan- der. . . .* Its variety is so great that we shall merely list the essays and comment briefly. Sainte-Beuve’s Tableau de la Renaissance frantaise au XVI sikcle and Cary’s EarZy French Poets. By Ivor D. 0. Arnold. Points out that French Renaissance poetry was appreciated...

.... Tout le XVIIIe si6cle a voti pour lui. L‘opposition de 1830 n’a CtC qu’un feu de paille. Bientbt Musset lui apportait son bulletin. Sainte-Beuve, qui lui avait fait une opposition de couloirs i la Briand, prononce en sa faveur les grands discours dCcisifs en prose de Port-Royal et des...

... and was awarded a prize for it. And this leaf poem became likewise very popular. W. M. Rossetti confused it with Arnault’s. Sainte-Beuve in 1837 said that everyone knew the poem by heart, and related also that he had recently learned of its having been translated into Russian, thence into English...

... + 260. $4.50. This is a collection of twenty-three essays in honor of the author of Reckerches sur la syntaxe de la conjonction “Que”1 and editor of The Buik of Alexan- der. . . .* Its variety is so great that we shall merely list the essays and comment briefly. Sainte-Beuve’s Tableau...

... Baudelaire and be thoroughly shocked-was summed up in Gautier’s Prkface for the 1868 edition of the poems. (It was reprinted in the Portraits et souvenirs Zittkraires in 1875.) Gautier, though he did not have the official critical function of either Pontmartin or Sainte-Beuve, came...

... of individuality to help students identify and describe literary genius. In an early essay he takes issue with Sainte- Beuve’s emphasis on the author’s life: “The man in Sainte-Beuve’s stud- ies covers up the work: Sainte-Beuve subordinates the work to the man, when...

...-Beuve, C. A. Thomas Jefferson et Tocqueville. Avec une Introduction par Gilbert Chinard. Princeton : Princeton University Press for Institut Franqais de Washington, 1943. Pp. 43. Fifty cents. Schaffer, Aaron. The Genres of Parnassian Poetry. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Studies...

.... Vincent, Howard P. (editor). Letters of Dora Wordsworth. Chicago : Pack- ard and Company, 1944. Pp. x + 98. $2.00. FRENCH Mahieu, Robert G. Sainte-Beuve aux Gtats-Unis. Princeton : Princeton Univer- sity Press, 1945. Pp. xii + 162 + 12. $2.50. Mayer...

... reached the height of her career in a superb interpretation of the role of Phidre, when the public turned its back on Hugo’s Bur- graves and applauded (with perhaps less discrimination) Ponsard’s Lucrkce, did not, therefore, come unheralded. The same year, Sainte- Beuve spoke of a “reaction...

... une Introduction par HOWARDC. RICE. Pp. 53. Thomas Jeferson et Tocqueville. By Sainte-Beuve. Avec une In- troduction par GILBERTCHINARD. Pp. 43. De la Dkmocratie en Amkrique. By Tocqueville. Extraits, avec une PrCface par GILBERTCHINARD. Pp. 66. Princeton : Princeton University...

... in the eyes of a saint.”l5 We know how much it bothered Proust that Balzac put “the achievements of life and litera- ture on exactly the same level” (MPAL, p. 159). So it is touchingly ironic that Proust defends him against his enemy Sainte-Beuve and starts by acknowledging that “even in those...