Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 3. The Reaction in France by Georg Brandes Diana White Mary Morison

Author:Georg Brandes, Diana White, Mary Morison [Georg Brandes, Diana White, Mary Morison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789389582239
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Publisher: Astral International Pvt. Ltd.
Published: 2020-03-09T00:00:00+00:00

This partiality for model, ideal landscape tempts our authors more and more frequently to lay the scenes of their works in heaven.

Chateaubriand continues to be a greater master in the description of earthly than of heavenly surroundings.

The action of De Vigny's earliest poems takes place, in genuine Seraphic style, midway between heaven and earth.

The scene of Victor Hugo's ode, Louis XVII., is the gate of heaven, that of La Vision heaven itself, the heavenly Jerusalem. In La Vision we come upon familiar imagery:

Le char des Séraphins fidèles,

Semé d'yeux, brillant d'étincelles,

S'arrêta sur son triple essieu;

Et la roue aux traces bruyantes,

Et les quatres ailes tournoyantes

Se turent au souffle de Dieu.

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Adorant l'Essence inconnue

Les Saints, les Martyrs glorieux,

Contemplaient, sons l'ardente Nue,

Le Triangle mystérieux.

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