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VI. Nineteenth Century, I.

CHATEAUBRIAND, 1768-1848.

Atala, 1801.

Génie du Christianisme, 1802.

Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe, published 1849.

LAMARTINE, 1790-1869.

Méditations, 1820.

HUGO, 1802-1885.

Hernani, 1830.

Feuilles d'Automne, 1831.

Notre-Dame de Paris, 1831.
Châtiments, 1852.
Contemplations, 1856.

Légende des Siècles, 1859.

Les Misérables, 1862.

VIGNY, 1797-1863.

Poèmes Antiques et Modernes, 1826.
Servitude et Grandeur Militaires, 1835.
MUSSET, 1810-1857.

Caprices de Marianne, 1833.

Lorenzaccio, 1834.

Les Nuits, 1835-1840.

GEORGE SAND, 1804-1876.
Indiana, 1832.

François le Champi, 1850.

STENDHAL, 1783-1842.

Le Rouge et le Noir, 1831.
BALZAC, 1799-1850.

Comédie Humaine, 1829-1850.

MICHELET, 1798–1874.

History, 1833-1867.

VII. Nineteenth Century, II.

SAINTE-BEUVE, 1804-1869.
Lundis, 1850-1869.

RENAN, 1823-1892.

Vie de Jésus, 1863.

TAINE, 1828-1893.
FLAUBERT, 1821-1880.

Madame Bovary, 1857.
Salammbô, 1862.
GAUTIER, 1811-1872.

Emaux et Camées, 1852.

BAUDELAIRE, 1821-1867.

Fleures du Mal, 1857.

LECONTE DE LISLE, 1820-1894.

Poems, 1853-1884.

SULLY PRUDHOMME, 1839-1908.
Poems, 1865-1888.
HEREDIA, 1842–1906.

Les Trophées, 1893.
MAUPASSANT, 1850-1893.
VERLAINE, 1844-1896.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

THE number of works dealing with the history and criticism of French literature is very large indeed. The following are the most useful reviews of the whole subject:

PETIT DE JULLEVILLE. Histoire de la Langue et de la Littérature française (8 vols.).

LANSON. Histoire de la Littérature française (1 vol.).

BRUNETIÈRE. Manuel de l'histoire de la Littérature française (1 vol.).

DOWDEN. History of French Literature (1 vol.).

An excellent series of biographies of the principal authors, by the leading modern critics, is that of Les Grands Ecrivains Français (published by Hachette).

The critical essays of Sainte-Beuve are particularly valuable. They are contained in his Causeries du Lundi, Premiers Lundis, Nouveaux Lundis, Portraits de Femmes, Portraits Littéraires, and Portraits Contemporains.

Some interesting criticisms of modern writers are to be found in La Vie Littéraire, by Anatole France.

Editions of the principal authors are very numerous. The monumental series of Les Grands Ecrivains de la France (Hachette) contains complete texts of most of the great writers, with elaborate and scholarly commentaries of the highest value. Cheaper editions of the masterpieces of the language are published by Hachette, La Bibliothèque Nationale, Jean Gillequin, Nelson, Dent, Gowans, and Gray.

There are also numerous lyrical anthologies, of which two of the best are Les Chefs-d'œuvre de la Poésie lyrique française (Gowans and Gray) and The Oxford Book of French Verse (Clarendon Press). But it must be remembered that the greater part of what is most characteristic in French literature appears in its poetic drama and its prose, and is therefore necessarily excluded from such collections.

INDEX

(The italic figures indicate the more important references.)

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