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Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
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Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam :
''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward Fitzgerald... In prose, the masters were Stendhal, Flaubert, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Guy de Maupassant, Prosper Merimee and Walter Pater".'