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Rene-Francois-Armand Sully-Prudhomme : unknown poetry

'Then again, I have nice books to read. The new French poets. Prudhomme is adorable − I shall have a lot of Sully Prudhomme to read when I come to you. Soulary better perhaps − better certainly, [italics]comme forme[end italics], but so unsympathetic when compared to Prudhomme in character and thought. Prudhomme is a [italics]good[end italics] man. Fancy! And a modern French poet! Wonders after that will never cease.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

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