The French Romanticists
An Anthology of Verse and Prose

This 1914 book contains selections, in poetry and prose, from French Romantic writers.

H. F. Stewart (Edited by), Arthur Tilley (Edited by)

9781107600584, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 June 2011

256 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm, 0.28 kg

First published in 1914, this book contains selections, in poetry and prose, from French Romantic writers. These selections serve to illustrate the theories put forward in a companion volume, The Romantic Movement in French Literature (1910). As a general rule, verse pieces are included in their entirety, although an exception is made in the case of a well-known passage from Victor Hugo's 'Réponse à un acte d'accusation'. Prose selections are generally extracts from larger pieces, although two complete stories are included from Balzac and Mérimée. All selections are presented in the original French. This carefully compiled text will be of value to anyone with an interest in French literature and Romanticism.

Part I. Lamartine: 1. L'Immortalité
2. Le Lac
3. L'Insolement
4. Le Crucifix
5. éternité de la Nature
Part II. Alfred de Vigny: 1. Moïse
2. Le Cor
3. La Mort du Loup
Part III. Victory Hugo: 1. Aux ruines de Montfort-l'Amaury
2. Les Djinns
3. Grenade
4. Mazeppa
5. Ce qu'on attend sur la montagne
6. 'Lorsque l'enfant paraît'
7. Solaeils couchants
8. Pan
9. La Vache
10. Une nuit qu'on entendait la mer sans la voir
11. Guitare
12. Oceano Nox
13. Chanson
14. Le Chasseur noir
15. Chanson
16. Répose àun acte d'accusation
17. 'Elle était pâle et pourtant rose'
18. Veni, vidi, vixi
19. A Villequier
20. Booz endormi
21. Un peu de musique
22. La rose de l'Infante
23. De la femme au ciel
24. Saison des Semailles, le Soir
25. Quatrième promenade
Part IV. Théophile Gautier: 1. Soleil couchant
2. Pan de mur
3. Le pot de fleurs
4. Symphonie et blanc majeur
5. L'Art
Part V. Alfred De Musset: 1. Chanson
2. La Nuit de Mai
3. La Nuit de Décembre
4. Lettre à Lamartine
5. Chanson de Fortunio
6. La Nuit d'Octobre
7. Tristesse
8. Souvenir
Part VI. Chateubriand: 1. Nature in the New World
2. The Christian soul before the Universe
3. Christian Architecture
4. Saint Denis
5. The Campagna
6. The Franks
7. The ruins of Sparta
8. Athens
9. The Valley of Jehoshaphat
Part VII. Charles Nodier: 1. The Nightmare
Part VIII. Lamenais: 1. Parable
2. Mother and Child
Part IX. Augustin Thierry: 1. Saint Radegund
Part X. Jules Michelet: 1. France
2. Joan of Arc
Part XI. Edgar Quinet: 1. The Meaning of Art
Part XII. Prosper Mérimée: 1. Le'Enlèvement de la Redoute
Part XIII. Sainte-Beuve: 1. Racine
Part XIV. Victor Hugo: 1. Paris in 1482
Part XV. Honoré de Balzac: 1. Le Réquisitionnaire
Part XVI. George Sand: 1. A love letter
2. The Ploughman
3. Berry
Part XVII. Théophile Gautier: 1. Ascent of the Mulahacén
2. The Alhambra
Index to notes.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]