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| As all the perfumes of the vanished day / Rise from the earth still moistened with the dew / So from my chastened soul beneath thy ray / Old love is born anew. |
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| 1810–57, French romantic poet, dramatist, and fiction writer.… Most of his poems appeared first in Revue des deux mondes; they included such famous pieces as the gloomy “Rolla” (1833) and the exquisite love lyrics “La Nuit de mai,” “La Nuit d’août,” “La Nuit d’octobre,” and “La Nuit de décembre” (1835–36).… He also wrote some brilliant nouvelles, but from 1840 he passed rapidly into decline. The autobiographical novel Confession d’un enfant du siècle (1836), gives an account of his affair with George Sand and reflects the disillusioned mood of many of his contemporaries.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Biographical Note from Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  m -s ´, mü- from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
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- The Story of a White Blackbird
From the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Vol. XIII, Part 3.
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