The Daguerreotype Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ...les etres bienpensants fell, from 1814 to 1819, on translations from Byron and Goethe, which were read and admired, not merely in the Faubourg St. Germain, but in the Chaussee d'Antin. But in 1820, the young Royalist, who had drunk of the inspiration of Goethe and of Byron, who admired Chateaubriand and relished--Royalist though he was--De BeYanger, returned to his country, and entered the gardes du corps. In the sombre a/We' of St. Cloud--in the wild walks of the forest of Fontainbleau--in the trim gardens of Versailles--in the cloudy climate of Burgundy, and in the heart of the vines of the Cote d'Or, he produced his Meditatiom Poe'tUfUts, The small volume was soon printed and launched on the waters; and within a week after it had been read, literary France hailed the book and its author with transports of enthusiasm, as the greatest poetical genius of the country. This was in 1820; and though De Beranger was then cherished by the fond and faithful few all the more because he was oppressed, and persecuted, and tolerated by the Royalists for his exquisite pathos, polish, and style, and feeling, so eminently French; yet the pages of Lamartine caused the descriptive style of Delille, the materialist poetry of Parny, and the epigrammatic poetry of Voltaire and Lcbrun, to pall on the public taste. Though in different walks, De Beranger and Lamartine divided the public favor and popularity. The first volume of Meditations was followed by a second, and the second by a Dernier Chant du, Pe'lcrinage d'Harold. In 1821 il. de Lamartine, then in the zenith of his fame, married, we believe, an English lady of good fortune, at least, a lady born in England, whose family possessed some estates in that bold Burgundy in which he first saw the light. Soon after his marriag...