A Short History of French Literature
A Short History of French Literature
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Boileau (though he was at first recalcitrant to Boileau, and had to be admonished by Voltaire that ga porte malheur), and their con- ch. v.] Essayists, Minor Moralists, Critics, 459 temporaries are infallible models, and in the application of this principle to all other nations. The passion for finding plausible general reasons also leads Marmontel into grotesque aberrations, as where he gives three reasons for English success in poetry as contrasted with our inferiority in the other arts. Firs...t, Englishmen, loving glory, saw early that poetry acquired glory for a nation.
Secondly, being naturally given to sadness and meditation, they wish for emotions to distract and move them. Thirdly, their genius is proper to poetry. This last remark, the reader should observe, comes from a countryman of Molibre, a man who must have read the Malade Imaginairey and who was moreover a man of much more than ordinary talent. Marmontel often has acute remarks, and his blunders and absurdities are rather symptomatic of the false state in which criticism was at the time than of individual shortcomings.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Boileau (though he was at first recalcitrant to Boileau, and had to be admonished by Voltaire that ga porte malheur), and their con- ch. v.] Essayists, Minor Moralists, Critics, 459 temporaries are infallible models, and in the application of this principle to all other nations. The passion for finding plausible general reasons also leads Marmontel into grotesque aberrations, as where he gives three reasons for English success in poetry as contrasted with our inferiority in the other arts. Firs...t, Englishmen, loving glory, saw early that poetry acquired glory for a nation.
Secondly, being naturally given to sadness and meditation, they wish for emotions to distract and move them. Thirdly, their genius is proper to poetry. This last remark, the reader should observe, comes from a countryman of Molibre, a man who must have read the Malade Imaginairey and who was moreover a man of much more than ordinary talent. Marmontel often has acute remarks, and his blunders and absurdities are rather symptomatic of the false state in which criticism was at the time than of individual shortcomings.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Saintsbury George to read onlineMoreLess
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