Causeries

It is not too much to say that the critical writings of Anatole France recall the Causeries du

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

It is not too much to say that the critical writings of Anatole France recall the Causeries du

The Red Lily — Complete Anatole France 1884

"Causeries," in which he treated, in a light vein, of the passing topics of the day.

George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy George Willis Cooke 1885

Still, he pleads, we must preserve the notion and the cult of the classics and at the same time widen it and make it more generous (Causeries du Lundi, Vol. III).

CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968

The critic “maintains tradition and preserves taste” (Causeries, XV, 356).

LITERARY CRITICISM REN 1968

His attitude shifted in the course of a long career from an early, more subjective concept as personal expres - sion to greater objectivity, detachment, and tolerance, and at the same time from a rather uncritical, sympa - thetic acceptance of the role of “secretary of the pub - lic” (Causeries du lundi, I, 373) to an increasing em - phasis on the role of judgment, to a definition of taste and tradition.

LITERARY CRITICISM REN 1968

Simplicity, swiftness, precision, all the qualities which were conspicuously absent, we will not say wanting, in the _Portraits_, -- these are the characteristics, and that in a surpassing degree, of the _Causeries_.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various

_Causeries du Lundi_, shortly after Balzac's death, he meted out but faint praise.

Balzac Frederick Lawton

It is in relief against a background such as this that Horace's works should be read, -- the _Satires_, published in 35 and 30, which the poet himself calls _Sermones_, "Conversations," "Talks," or _Causeries_; the collection of lyrics called _Epodes_, in 29; three books of _Odes_ in

Horace and His Influence Grant Showerman

_Causeries du lundi_, vol. ii., is not unfair, though it could hardly be cordial.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various