Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Second, history for Victor Hugo is merely stage setting. For neither his facts nor his sentiments are exact. But this use of history allows the poet to vary his scenes and costumes. And there is plenty of physical suffering in his plays...
...shall examine the essential traits of de Musset's character, then we shall look to the conceptions he had of poetry and of life. We shall see how sorrow made a great poet...
...thinks that to be a poet is to "hark in his heart to the echo of his genius"; that is to say the poet ought to express only what is in his own heart...
...Musset's life all tended towards one great passion. De Musset was destined to suffer from this great passion, which was embodied in George Sand. Their relations are perfectly well known. De Musset was very unhappy; but after their separation de Musset was a great poet,- which he was not before...
...Musset's poetry was personal but on account of its depth has become universal. He is the poet closest to the French heart, not perhaps that he is the most admired but that he is the best loved...