Beuve

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

Charm Offensive 2007

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

Charm Offensive 2007

Sainte Beuve the first professional literary critic wrote the kind of beautifully overpolished prose-about-prose that only undergraduates have to read today.

American Connections James Burke 2007

A hundred years ago one enthusiastic French critic, Saint-Beuve, called it “the Bible of Humanity.”

Nabokov and Tattoos « So Many Books 2005

Sainte Beuve the first professional literary critic wrote the kind of beautifully overpolished prose-about-prose that only undergraduates have to read today.

American Connections James Burke 2007

Sainte – Beuve, as he grew older, came to regard all experience as a single great book, in which to study for a few years ere we go hence; and it seemed all one to him whether you should read in Chapter xx., which is the differential calculus, or in Chapter xxxix., which is hearing the band play in the gardens.

Virginibus Puerisque and other papers 2005

Boulogne, one of the foremost physiologists of the last century, an immediate predecessor of Charcot in knowledge of the nervous system, Aug. Mariette, the Egyptologist, Aug. Angellier, the biographer of Burns, Sainte – Beuve, Prof. Morel, and

Travels through France and Italy 2004

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

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Sainte-Beuve who tells us that Vigny repelled people by the same eccentricity.

Within a Budding Grove 2003

Sainte-Beuve, who loves you all the same, claims that you are horribly vicious.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003