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Our army has recrossed the Marne. Little Jeanne crawls very well on her bands and knees and says "papa" very prettily. December 5. I have just seen a magnificent hearse, draped with black velvet, embroidered with an "H" surrounded by silver stars, go by to fetch its burden. A Roman would not disdain to be borne in it. Gautier came to dine with me. After dinner Banville and Coppee called.
But the exquisite poetic perceptivity Coppée showed in his modern poems, the certainty with which he raised the commonest subject, investing it with sufficient dignity for his purpose, escaped me wholly, and I could not but turn with horror from such poems as "La Nourrice" and "Le Petit Epicier."
By Henry Coppee, A.M. Richly Illustrated. Philadelphia. E.H. Butler & Co. 8vo. morocco. $12.00. Women of Beauty and Heroism. From Semiramis to Eugénie. A Portrait Gallery of Female Loveliness, Achievement, and Influence. Illustrated with Nineteen Engravings on Steel. By Frank B. Goodrich. New York. Derby & Jackson. 8vo. morocco. $12.00. Wild Sports in the Far West. By Frederick Gerstaecker.
Scollard knew what it is to love a gentle, intelligent, affectionate cat made so by kind treatment. To Francois Coppee the cat is as sacred as it was to the Egyptians of old. The society of his feline pets is to him ever delightful and consoling, and it may have inspired him to write some of his most melodious verses. Nevertheless he is not the cat's poet.
The small columns of the porch gave it the name of the tempietto, or little temple, while several personages dear to litterateurs had lived there, from the landscape painter Claude Lorrain to the poet Francois Coppee.
Coppee possesses preeminently the gift of presenting concrete fact rather than abstraction. A sketch, for instance, is the first tale written by him, 'Une Idylle pendant le Seige' . In a novel we require strong characterization, great grasp of character, and the novelist should show us the human heart and intellect in full play and activity.
Happily, I find in these thousands of lines fine and noble words words written by J.J. Weiss, Zola, Emile de Girardin, Jules Valles, Jules Lemaitre, &c.; and beautiful verses full of grace and justice, signed Victor Hugo, Francois Coppee, Richepin, Haraucourt, Henri de Bornier, Catulle Mendes, Parodi, and later Edmond Rostand.
Of these, Coppee devotes himself to domestic and social subjects; Louise Siefert indulges in the poetry of despair; Glatigny excels all in individuality of poetical treatment. The Parnassiens number three or four score poets; the average of their work is high, though to none can be assigned the first rank.
"Well, my dear," she said, kissing me, "there is a chance for you to make a poet happy!" She then introduced Francois Coppee. I invited the young man to sit down, and then I looked at him more thoroughly. His handsome face, emaciated and pale, was that of the immortal Bonaparte. A thrill of emotion went through me, for I adore Napoleon I. "Are you a poet, Monsieur?" I asked. "Yes, Mademoiselle."
By FRANCOIS COPPEE With a Preface by JOSE DE HEREDIA, of the French Academy FRANCOIS EDOUARD JOACHIM COPPEE was born in Paris, January 12, 1842. After the father's death, the young man himself entered the governmental office with its monotonous work. In the evening he studied hard at St. Genevieve Library. From this period dates the reputation of Coppee he woke up one morning a "celebrated man."
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