278
re_, 1881; le Vitrail_, 1887; les
Cimes_, 1893.
297. LE COLIBRI. From _Poèmes en miniature_.
298. LES DEUX OMBRES. From le Vitrail.
LOUIS TIERCELIN.
1849.
His work is distinguished by sentiment that is usually pure and sweet, sometimes deep and tender.
Works: _Les Asphodèles_, 1873; l'Oasis_, 1880; _les Anniversaires, 1887; les Cloches_, 1891; _Sur la Harpe, 1897.
298. LE PETIT ENFANT. From l'Oasis. For the form of the triolet see the remarks on versification.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT.
1850-1893.
This famous master of the short story began his literary career, like Daudet, Theuriet, and Bourget, with a volume of verse. Des Vers, 1880.
PAUL BOURGET.
1852.
Like Maupassant, he early forsook poetry for the novel, and for literary criticism. His verse, like his prose, is the work of a psychologist, who observes and analyzes his own experiences. He is never so far possessed by his emotion as to cease to inspect it curiously. In the restlessness of his spirit, the unsettled currents of his moral atmosphere, his doubts and longings, he represents a large fraction of his generation.
Works: _La Vie inquiète_, 1874; Edel_, 1878; _les Aveux, 1882; collected in two volumes with the title _Poésies_, 1885-87.
For reference: J. Lemaître, les Contemporains, vol. ii, 1887; A. N. van Daell, Extraits choisis des oeuvres de Paul Bourget, Boston, 1894 (introduction and lettre autobiographique).
302. PRAETERITA is from _la Vie inquiète_; the other poems here given are from les Aveux_. 13, 14; the second of November, jour des Trépasses_, is in the church calendar the day of the special commemoration of the dead.
ABEL HERMANT.
1862.
Another who seems to have been won from poetry to the novel, in