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orite of the Parnassiens.
Works: Les Vignes folles_, 1857; les flèches d'or_, 1864; _Gilles et Pasquins_, 1872.
For reference: J. Lazare, A. Glatigny, sa vie, son oeuvre; Catulle Mendès, _Légende du Parnasse contemporain_, 1884.
SULLY PRUDHOMME.
1839.
René-François-Armand Prudhomme, known as Sully Prudhomme, combines the artistic punctiliousness of a Parnassien with sincere emotion and a deeply philosophic mind. The intellectual quality of his work is conspicuous, but hardly less so the grace and finish of its form. It bears deep traces of the influence of the scientific movement of our time and of the transformation it has wrought in our ideas of man and nature and their relations. The personal emotion from which his lyrics spring appears always intellectually illumined, with its background of scientific corollaries and logical consequences. It is not abandoned to itself, to wreak itself on expression, but is checked by the challenge of doubt or scientific curiosity or moral scruple. His verse thus unites in rare degree the qualities of lyrical impulse and philosophical reflection.
Works: _Stances et Poèmes_, 1865; _les Épreuves_, 1866; _les Solitudes_, 1869; les Destins_, 1872; _les Vaines Tendresses, 1875; la Justice_, 1878; _le Prisme_, 1886; _le Bonheur, 1888; these have appeared in a new edition as Oeuvres, 5 vols., 1883-1888.
For reference: J. Lemaître, les Contemporains, vol. i, 1886; E. Caro, _Poètes et romanciers_, 1888; G. Paris, _Penseurs et poètes_, 1896; F. Brunetière, _Évolution de la poésie lyrique_, vol. ii, 1894.
The first eleven poems are from _Stances et Poèmes_. LES DANAÏDES, UN SONGE and LE RENDEZ VOUS are from _les Épreuves_; LA VOIE LACTÉE is from les Solitudes_; REPENTIR, from _Impressions de la Guerre (1872;) CE QUI DURE,