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...Copeland delivered a most interesting lecture last evening on Zola, Maupassant, Alphonse Daudet, Bourget and other French novelists...
Maupassant shows some signs of occupying himself with the soul and this brings us to Bourget, who is ever preoccupied with the soul...
Lecture. Zola, Maupassant, Alphonse Daudet, Bourget, and other contemporary French novelists. Mr. Copeland, Sever...
...members of the course found an especial interest in his remarks since M. Bourget's literary criticisms cover a large part of that period of French literature to which the course is devoted. As the class is at present making a study of Hugo, he began by referring...
...chief representatives of this school M. Bourget named M. Leconte de Lisle and M Sully-Prudhomme. Both are scientists as well as poets. M. Leconte de Lisle, the greatest of contemporaneous French poets, is a poet of nature. Actuated at once by the greatest regard for truth, and desire for poetic expression, he succeeds in picturing nature in language both accurate and poetic. M. Sully-Prudhomme produced psychological studies of character which, though they are true to life, show a depth of power and feeling equal to that of the romanticist. The school of which these men are the leaders...