Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve: Quick Facts


Facts

Born December 23, 1804 • Boulogne • France
Died October 13, 1869 (aged 64) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Causeries du lundi” • “Chateaubriand et son groupe littéraire sous l’empire” • “Critiques et portraits littéraires” • “Les Consolations” • “Livre d’amour” • “Revue des Deux Mondes” • “Tableau historique et critique de la poésie française et du théâtre français au XVIe siècle” • “Vie, poésies et pensées de Joseph Delorme” • “Volupté”
Subjects Of Study French literature

Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
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Augusto de Campos
Brazilian poet and critic
H. L. Mencken stands on a staircase at his Baltimore home, holding a cigar and leaning on the banister, with framed pictures covering the wall behind him.
H.L. Mencken
American writer
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
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Suzanne Lilar
Belgian author
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Théophile Gautier
French author
Paul Valéry.
Paul Valéry
French critic and poet
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Charles Maurras
French writer and political theorist
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Alain Robbe-Grillet
French author
Nicolas Boileau.
Nicolas Boileau
French author
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Alfred de Musset
French author
Chapelain, engraving by Robert Nanteuil, 1655
Jean Chapelain
French author
Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
English author
German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic