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Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Excerpt from Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve: French Men of Letters Whatever the merits or the faults of this book, it has the advantage of being the first one in the English language devoted to the life and works of Sainte-Beuve. Criticism is not so highly honoured in English-speaking countries as in France, and it has perhaps been taken for granted that to criticise a critic would be carrying the thing too far. For of course to write a man's life is to criticise him. Yet Sainte-Beuve was a pervading force in the intellectual history of his time. His influence was European. It has become world-wide. And if, as is not improbable, the nineteenth century should appear more and more a century of ...
Monday-chats
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English Portraits
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Portraits of the Seventeenth Century Historic and Literary
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869) was a literary critic and one of the major figures of French literary history. This two-part work collects his articles and essays.
Volupte
This is the first English translation of a pre-Freudian psychological novel. The narrator victimizes women while feeling victimized by his own sensuality.
Mapping Lives
These essays on the problems and functions of biography - particularly those of writers, thinkers and artists - investigate a subject of enduring importance for those interested in culture.
Portraits of the Eighteenth Century
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869) was a historian and critic of French literature. This is the second volume of his 1828 Tableau de la poesie francaise au seizieme siecle, which includes the Abbe Prevost, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Frederick the Great, Beaumarchais, and Marie Antoinette.
