Vie, poésies et pensées de Joseph Delorme

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Vie, poésies et pensées de Joseph Delorme is a work by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, a prominent French literary historian and critic. Published in 1829, this collection of poetry and thought was noted for its deliberate flatness and apparent uncouthness, contrasting with the more grandiose style of his Romantic contemporaries like Victor Hugo. The work, along with his subsequent poetry collection Les Consolations (1830), attracted attention for its unique style. Sainte-Beuve is recognized for his critical method of applying historical references to contemporary writing and for his extensive literary portraits.1

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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Early life and Romantic period
…volumes of his own poetry, Vie, poésies et pensées de Joseph Delorme (1829; “The Life, Poetry, and Thought of Joseph Delorme”) and Les Consolations (1830), which on their publication attracted some attention—not least because of their deliberate flatness and apparent uncouthness, much in contrast to the grander manner of Hugo…
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…volumes of his own poetry, Vie, poésies et pensées de Joseph Delorme (1829; “The Life, Poetry, and Thought of Joseph Delorme”) and Les Consolations (1830), which on their publication attracted some attention—not least because of their deliberate flatness and apparent uncouthness, much in contrast to the grander manner of Hugo…
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