By Way of Sainte-Beuve (Contre Sainte-Beuve). Translated by Sylvia Townsend Warner.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1958.

 

This volume of translation is based on Contre Sainte-Beuve, suivi de Nouveaux Mélanges. Ed. Bernard de Fallois. Paris: Gallimard, 1954.

CONTENTS

BY WAY OF SAINTE-BEUVE MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS
Prologue

Proust the Critic

I In Slumbers Against the Young Writersof the Days
II Bedrooms On Taste
III The Days A History of French Satire
IV The Countess A Sunday Concert at the Conservatoire
V The Article in Le Figaro Patriotism and the Christian Spirit
VI The Sunbeam on the Balcony On La Bonne Hélène
VII Talking to Mama Portrait of a Writer
VIII The Method of Sainte-Beuve Poet and Novelist
IXSainte-Beuve and Baudelaire The Wane of Inspiration
X Gérard de Nerval The Artist in Contemplation
XI Sainte-Beuve and Balzac The Creed of Art
XII Monsieur de Guermantes's Balzac

Portraits of Painters

XIII A Race Accursed Watteau
XIV Names Chardin
XV The Return Rembrandt
Return to the Present Gustave Moreau
  Monet
 

Proust the Reader

  Goethe
  Chateaubriand
  Joubert
  Notes on Stendhal
  Georges Eliot
  Tolstoi
  Dostoievski
  Jules Renard
  Robert de Montesquiou
  Henri de Régnier
  Léon Daudet

 

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