the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Alfred de Vigny : Cinq Mars

'Is not "Cinq Mars" very fine? I should like to read more of De Vigny'.

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau      Print: Book

Alfred de Vigny : 

Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappointed: isn't he rather metallic? I read a good deal in odd moments, & a curious mixture, I think. A book I have always meant to do, I finished last week & could hardly put down at all, The Life of Parnell [...] Also the Life of Russell by the same man [R. B. O'Brien] & [Disraeli's] Coningsby which is absolutely preposterous, & [Voltaire's] La Dictionnaire Philosophique.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

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