22 mai 2013
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Jeanne Delbaere-Garant, « French Poets. Baudelaire, Musset, Gautier, Hugo », Presses universitaires de Liège, ID : 10.4000/books.pulg.912
I am jealous of the brush of the wing of verse and try to dignify the petty sentiment with the name of criticism. And in addition to being jealous I am also envious—envious of the lyric mood, the lyric leak—you can say the egotistical thing—I never. James does not seem to have been much attracted by the lyric mood. We need only open his French Poets and Novelists to notice that the novelists receive by far the larger share of his attention and that when he examines a poet the latter’s prose w...