Coppee

X., the minister of state; M.T., the famous banker who enjoyed bacchanalian orgies in a secret room of his country estate; the painter Bonnat, the composer Massenet, the poet Coppee, diplomats, artists, generals, scientists, and judges -- "a whole body of judges."

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Coppee -- he woke up one morning a "celebrated man."

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Coppee possesses preeminently the gift of presenting concrete fact rather than abstraction.

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Within this tranquil domicile can be heard the noise of the Parisian faubourg with its thousand different dins; the bustle of the street; the clatter of a factory; the voice of the workshop; the cries of the pedlers intermingled with the chimes of the bells of a near-by convent-a confusing buzzing noise, which the author, however, seems to enjoy; for Coppee is Parisian by birth,

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M.reover, he respects the limits of his art; for while his friend and contemporary, M. Sully-Prudhomme, goes astray habitually into philosophical speculation, and his immortal senior, Victor Hugo, often declaims, if one may venture to say so, in a manner which is tedious, Coppee sticks rigorously to what may be called the proper regions of poetry.

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Thanks to the juvenile Sarah Bernhardt, Coppee became, as before mentioned, like Byron, celebrated in one night.

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Smooth shaven, of placid figure, with pensive eyes, the hair brushed back regularly, the head of an artist, Coppee can be seen any day looking over the display of the Parisian secondhand booksellers on the Quai Malaquais; at home on the writing-desk, a page of carefully prepared manuscript, yet sometimes covered by cigarette-ashes; upon the wall, sketches by Jules

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Coppee, however, is not only a maker of verses, he is an artist and a poet.

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The coloring and designing are precise, even if the tone be somewhat sombre, and nobody will deny that Coppee most fully possesses the technique of

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If as a poet we contemplate him, Coppee belongs to the group commonly called "Parnassiens" -- not the Romantic School, the sentimental lyric effusion of Lamartine, Hugo, or De Musset!

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