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Title: The history and progress of the world
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Sanderson, Edgar, d. 1907 Lamberton, John Porter, 1839-1917, joint author Morris, Charles, 1833-1922, joint author
Subjects: World history Philosophers Women Statesmen Statesmen Literature
Publisher: Philadelphia, T. Nolan
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dings, throw-ing all the blame of the moral evil of the time on the despot-ism of Napoleon. The fault of the poets life lay in themoral weakness of the man himself. His genius enabledhim to give expression to the ardor of his youth and to themental conflict of his later dissipated life. He was ad-mitted to the Academy in 1852, being then regarded as apoet of the highest rank. Other poets and dramatists of the Romantic schoolwho became also novelists, will be treated later. The mostnotable WTre Theophile Gautier and Alexandre Dum.as.Petrus Borel and Gerard de Nerv^al affected wierd poetrywith a certain success. Later came Charles Baudelaire(1821-1867), who translated Poes short stories. Hecopied and exaggerated the morbid features of his mastersimaginative writings. He had, however, original geniuswhich he unfortunately put to vile uses, making the evil ofhuman nature the theme for his artistic skill in language.His excellent critical instinct is seen in some admirablestudies of poets.
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THE ROMANTIC NOVELISTS The novel, now all but supreme in the literature of theworld, is traced by literary historians to the prose romancewhich originated, with little, if any foreign impulse, inFrance in the Twelfth Century. It was at first the tellingin simpler form for a ruder audience of the poeticalromances of chivalry, as in Amadis of Gaul. In theSeventeenth Century there arose pastoral romanceswhich described the characters and doings of theFrench court under a disguise borrowed from ancienthistory. Then there came tales of the adventures ofrogues and vagabonds. But the name Novel was appliedto the long drawn out tales which depended for their inter-est on their sensibility, or proper regulation of the ten-der feelings of the human heart. With the opening of theNineteenth Century some of these forms were partlyrevived. But the French novel, as commonly accepted,came in with the Romanticism, which has been viewed inits poetical and dramatic aspects. Previous stories had nomarked

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