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Amiel

 

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Henri-Frederic Amiel : Fragments d'un Journal Intime

Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include two short quotations, from Bede ('Two most wicked spirits rising with forks in their hands[...]') and Amiel ('S'en aller toute d'un fois est un privilege; tu periras par morceaux'), accompanied by note: 'I encounter these two mournful small fry on the same day. Boo hoo down the ages.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

  

Amiel : Journal Intime

'In 1885 he [Tennyson] came across Amiel's Journal Intime, and thought his criticisms on Hugo and literature in general good; but that the Journal throughout was too morbid for anything. 'The modern French poets were read by him with great interest. The last French poems he read were by Coppee, and by Jean Aicard.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

  

Henri Frederic Amiel : Journal Intime

'it was during this year [1884] that she began her translation of Amiel's "Journal".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ward      Print: Book

  

Henri Frederic Amiel : Journal Intime

'[letter from Mrs Ward's brother William Arnold] I served on a jury at the Assizes last week - two murder cases and general horrors. I sat next to a Mr Amiel - prounounced "Aymiell" - a worthy Manchester tradesman; no doubt his ancestor was a Huguenot refugee. I had one of your vols. in my pocket, and showed him the passage about the family. He was greatly interested, and borrowed it. Returned it next day with the remark that it was "too religious for him". Alas divine philosophy!'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Amiel      Print: Book

  

Henri Frederic Amiel : Journal Intime

'[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone] Thank you very much for the volume of "Gleanings" with its gracious inscription. I have read the article you point out to me with the greatest interest, and shall do the same with the others. Does not the difference between us on the question of sin come very much to this - that to you the great fact of the world and in this history of man, is [italics] sin [end italics] - to me, [italics] progress [end italics]? I remember Amiel somewhere speaks of the distinction as marking off two classes of thought, two orders of temperament.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Augusta Ward      Print: Book

  

Henri-Frédéric Amiel : The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel

'Finished reading Amiel's "Journal Intime" today. How easy for a critic to lapse into a patronising attitude towards this most sensitive man who was so critical of himself. But it is Amiel who reveals the world's malformities in the undistorted mirror of his self-revelation'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

 

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