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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MAURICE DE GUERIN. WILL not presume to say that I now know the French language well; but at a time when I knew it even less well than at present, ? some fifteen years ago, ? I remember pestering those about me with this sentence, the rhythm of which had lodged itself in my head, and which, with the strangest pronunciation possible, I kept perpetually declaiming: Les dieux jaloux ont enfoui quelque part les te'moignages de la descendance des choses; mais au bord de quel Oce'an ont ils route' la pierre qui les couvre, 6 Macare'e These words come from a short composition called the Centaur, of which the author, Georges-Maurice de Gue'rin, died in the year 1839, at the age of twenty-eight, without having published anything. In 1840, Madame Sand brought out the Centaur in the Revue des Deux Mondes, with a short notice of its author, and a few extracts from his letters. A year or two afterwards she reprinted these at the end of a volume of her novels; and there it was that I fell in with them. I was so much struck with the Centaur that I waited anxiously to hear something more of its author, and of what he had left; but it was not till the other day ? twenty years after the first publication of the Centaur in the Revue des Deux Mondes ? that my anxiety was satisfied. At the end of 1860 appeared two volumes with the title, Maurice de Guerin, Reliquice, containing the Centaur, several poems of Gue'rin, his journals, and a number of his letters, collected and edited by a devoted friend, M. Trebutien, and preceded by a notice of Guerin by the first of living critics, M. Sainte-Beuve. The grand power of poetry is its interpretative power; by which I mean, not a power of drawing out in black and white an explanation of the mystery of the universe, but the power of so dealing with...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217714006 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217714005 |
| Weight | 0.97 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.67 In |
| List Price | $24.39 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 296 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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