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  • The translating exoticized him, and then one day Laforgue wrote Gustave Kahn and said, Gustave, my frère, I forgot to rhyme.

    THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

  • The translating exoticized him, and then one day Laforgue wrote Gustave Kahn and said, Gustave, my frère, I forgot to rhyme.

    THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

  • But Eliot had cosmopolitan tastes and initially he had been drawn to the Metaphysical poets because they reminded him of Laforgue and Corbière.

    Visions of Light Alvarez, Al 2000

  • In an essay on Impressionism written in 1883, the poet Jules Laforgue described the Impressionist as 'a modernist painter endowed with an uncommon sensibility of the eye, 'who,

    Monet's Way Flam, Jack 1990

  • When Eliot wants to place Marvell, he adapts Laforgue: 'C'était une belle âme, comme on ne fait plus à Londres.'

    Fun in the Waste Land Wood, Michael 1982

  • There were 'deeps in him,' Ezra Pound said of Jules Laforgue; 'and Laforgue more than they thought in him.'

    Fun in the Waste Land Wood, Michael 1982

  • Eliot, characteristically, was more cautious in his praise, anxious not to mix Laforgue with the major poets, but generous and constant all the same.

    Fun in the Waste Land Wood, Michael 1982

  • They were pessimists who need not have read Schopenhauer and Eduard von Hart - mann, as Laforgue did, to succumb to the mood of decadence, fin de siècle, Götterdämmerung, or the death of God prophesied by Nietzsche.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas REN 1968

  • Max Nordau's Entartung and began to write a long series of articles on Maeterlinck, Laforgue, and many others not bothering to conceal his dependence on his

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas REN 1968

  • It is a rather lame impressionistic account of Nerval, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Laforgue, Mal - larmé, Huysmans, and Maeterlinck with emphasis on

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas REN 1968

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