Leconte De Lisle Research Articles

REVIEWS

REVIEWS Get access Leconte de Lisle's Poems on the Barbarian Races. By ALISON FAIRLIE. Cambridge: University Press. 1947. xiii+426 pp. 25s. G. RUDLER G. RUDLER OXFORD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume III, Issue 1, January 1949, Pages 86-a–86, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/III.1.86-a Published: 01 January 1949

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:Fairlie, Alison, Leconte de Lisle's Poems on the Barbarian Races.Gordon, Douglas H. and Torrey, Norman L., The Censoring of Diderot's Encyclopédie and the Re‐Established Text.Labiche et Martin, Les trente‐sept sous de M. Montaudoin, edited by S. B. Brodin and M. VignerasLopes, A. R. and Yarbro, J. D., Bonjour!Molière, Le bourgeois gentilhomme, edited by Adolphe and Henriette DickmanSeward, Robert D., Dictionary of French Deceptive Cognates.Appelt, E. P., and Hanhardt, A. M., Deutsche Gespräche.Fehlau, Uland E., Fundamental German.Four German Stories, edited by Margaret W. Pfaffle and George H. DantonRehder, Helmut and Twaddell, Freeman, German.Rehder, Helmut and Twaddell, W. F., German Area Readings.Heflin, Alden R. and Chandler, Richard E., Risas y sonrisas.The Interludes of Cervantes, translated from the Spanish with a preface and notes by S. Griswold MorleyQuiroga, Horacio, Anaconda, edited by Willis Knapp Jones and Glenn BarrSarmiento, Domingo Faustino, A Sarmiento Anthology

Anatole France and Poetry

IN a recently-published volume, Anatole France: critique littéraire,1 Mlle. Annette Antoniu gives a very closely-documented and, in the main, trustworthy, account of the intellectual and critical development of the great novelist. This work, however, confines itself to the consideration of Anatole France's pronouncements in his works of criticism and is, by the very nature of its subject, somewhat diffuse in its treatment. It may, therefore, be of some interest to study France's attitude towards poetry and poets as expressed in his novels and short-stories, in his volumes of essays and in his reminiscences of childhood, as well as in his conversations with some of the numerous “literary reporters” who, during the past decade, have been basking in the glory of the deceased master. Such an examination is of importance in view of the many bitter attacks that have been leveled at France by critics who are not content with attempting to expose what they consider to be the dangers inherent in his skepticism, and have left no stone unturned in the effort to prove that, both as man and as thinker, he was totally devoid of the moral sense. Thus, for example, in his Historie du Parnasse,2 M. Maurice Souriau would have us believe that France dealt treacherously by his erstwhile comrades, the Parnassians, and, more especially, by their principal leader, Leconte de Lisle.