The Wellesley Magazine, Vol. 4: May, 1896 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Wellesley Magazine, Vol. 4: May, 1896

It is true that the general animus of De Vigny' s work is profoundly sad. Faith in the social fabric failed him; nor could he take refuge, as so many of his generation, in a return to nature and rapturous admiration of primeval life. His attitude is characteristic of his stern sincerity. At a time when Chateaubriand was sentimentalizing over Nature's response to the soul of man, De Vigny saw in her a malign power. They call thee a Mother thou art a tomb he cries with epigrammatic terseness, and in somber, reticent lines develops this inexorable thought. He sees in human destinies only a passage from suffering of conflict to suffering of endurance, lighted by an uncertain gleam, which che never quite abandons, of distant hope.

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