The Foreign Sacred Lyre: Metrical Versions of Religious Poetry From the German, French, and Italian, Together With the Original Pieces (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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A French biographer of De Lamartine (who mingles censure of the politician with eulogy of the poet) relates that on the first appearance of his Meditations poé'tiques,' a cry of admiration resounded through all France. The poet was saluted as a new deliverer, who, with the cross in his hand, broke the idol of Materialism, and dethroned Voltaire. In less than two years, forty-five thousand Copies were sold. He refers afterwards to the Harmonies poétiques et religieuses as a sublime book.

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