Sainte-Beuve

• “In 1870, Sainte-Beuve famously and eccentrically devoted his unrivaled literary talents to a lacerating indictment of Talleyrand.”

  Charm Offensive

• “A generation later, Sainte-Beuve praised her as "a great Athenian orator" for freedom, but now emphasized the inward-looking poetic intensity of the Coppet circle, self-entranced by "la raquette magique du discours" (Portraits de Femmes, 1845).”

  The Great de Staël

• “Ariosto, Sainte-Beuve, and Hölderlin also get approving nods.”

  The Making of Samuel Beckett

• “Even the names opened for him a world of possibility beyond the surrounding dullness and domesticity and patriotism and religiosity: Sainte-Beuve, the Goncourts, Mérimée, Renan.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Master

• “He took down from his shelf a volume of Sainte-Beuve and flicked through it, but the feeling of being away from the heart of things was overwhelming now.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Master

• “England had turned from style, as it has been understood from the translators of the Bible to Walter Pater, sought mere clarity in statement and debate, a journalistic effectiveness, at the moment when Irish men of letters began to quote the saying of Sainte-Beuve: ‘There is nothing immortal in literature except style’.96 Style was his growing obsession, he would point out all the errors of some silly experiment of mine, then copy it.”

  Simon & Schuster: Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies

• “Sainte-Beuve, and Merimee, and Felicien Rops; I could rhyme”

  Mark Twain: A Biography

• “Sainte-Beuve is very high tempered, and, as regards opinions, so perfectly skeptical, that I should never be astonished at anything he did, in one sense or the other.”

  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters

• “Sainte-Beuve is preparing a lecture on the press law.”

  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters

• “Sainte-Beuve was outraged against Dalloz and has gone to le Temps.”

  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters

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