French Criticism of American Literature Before 1850
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Cette espece de critique est le refuge de quelques hommes dis- tingue^ qui ne se croient pas de grands hommes, comme c'est trop l'usage de chaque commencant aujourd'hui; qui ne m6connaissent pas leur 6poque, sans pour cela F adorer; qui, en se permettant eux-memes des essais d'art, de courtes et vives inventions, ne s'en exagerent pas la portee. . . . Parmi les hommes assez rares de cette nature, nous ne pouvons pas ne pas mentionner M. Chasles. . . . As far back as 1819 Chasles had begun to wr...ite in English, 5 and in 1823 there was pub- lished a collection of studies upon contemporary English poets that had appeared in the " Revue encyclopedique," and that bore the title "Coup d'ceil sur les poetes anglais vivants." We can attribute it to what we will, to this good foundation for a real appreciation of the bearing of English literature- upon American, or to a conviction that may have forced itself upon him — as we can only wonder that it had not already forced itself more generally than seems to have been the case upon French critics — that identity of language makes for identity, or similarity, of sympathy, in litera- ture as well as elsewhere; in any case, in the 5 A convenient bibliography of Chasles' writings published in book form is to be found in Thieme: "Guide bibliographique de la litterature francaise de 1800 a 1906." (Paris, Welter, 1907.) FRENCH CRITICISM OF AMERICAN LITERATURE 123 article in the "Revue des deux Mondes" of 1835, he says that "twenty wars of indepen- dence would not keep the United States from remaining English and Puritan." 6 And he goes on, insisting that the United States have had no literature that was not English, — lit- erature, that is, of excellence: Cooper follows Scott, Irving copies Addison.
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