Word: litterateurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same sense of irony enlivens the author's view of American writing. In a history of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he describes a long forgotten poet and overstuffed shirt. Appointed permanent secretary of the Academy, the litterateur wrote a formal acceptance to himself, signed: "Very respectfully yours, Robert Underwood Johnson...
...Heinrich Heine provides the best description of Prima Donna Pauline Viardot: "Her ugliness is of a kind that is noble and, if I might almost say beautiful, such as sometimes enchanted and inspired the great lion-painter Delacroix." She was married -and remained married-to Louis Viardot, a prosperous litterateur. Viardot and Turgenev met and found much in common: an interest in writing, bird shooting and Pauline...