SULLY-PRUDHOMME (1839-1907). 2 L.A.S., 1886-1894; 4 pages in-8 each, the 2nd with envelope.
June 8, 1886, to Théodore de Banville: he had come to bring him his new collection of poems; he describes at length a painting by Georges Rochegrosse (Banville's son-in-law) exhibited at the Salon... - April 25, 1894, to Baroness Double: he is to write an article on Pascal's method... As for "being praised by our readers? It is a consolation which has its dangers, but the serious poet is warned by his own aesthetic sense against the enterprises of vanity"...
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SULLY-PRUDHOMME (1839-1907). 2 L.A.S., 1886-1894; 4 pages in-8 each, the 2nd with envelope. June 8, 1886, to Théodore de Banville: he had come to bring him his new collection of poems; he describes at length a painting by Georges Rochegrosse (Banville's son-in-law) exhibited at the Salon... - April 25, 1894, to Baroness Double: he is to write an article on Pascal's method... As for "being praised by our readers? It is a consolation which has its dangers, but the serious poet is warned by his own aesthetic sense against the enterprises of vanity"...

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SULLY-PRUDHOMME (1839-1907). 2 L.A.S., 1886-1894; 4 pages in-8 each, the 2nd with envelope. June 8, 1886, to Théodore de Banville: he had come to bring him his new collection of poems; he describes at length a painting by Georges Rochegrosse (Banville's son-in-law) exhibited at the Salon... - April 25, 1894, to Baroness Double: he is to write an article on Pascal's method... As for "being praised by our readers? It is a consolation which has its dangers, but the serious poet is warned by his own aesthetic sense against the enterprises of vanity"...
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