Word: authority
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Kentuckians," Mr. Fox writes of his mother state and her people with such insight and sympathy as show him to be a true son of Kentucky and an affectionate brother to Kentuckians of all kinds. For in this story the author has acquainted us with the blue-grass country, as typical in its way as that where the Cumberland Vendetta flourished and Mr. Shivers came to his death at last...
...author's theory which stands out most plainly is about love. It is that love is of divine essence, that it justifies itself, that we can not and ought not to resist it, that every one has a right to love, and that love has a right to everything. Such a conception was new in French literature. It was the outcome of Rousseau's theories and of the belief in the goodness of instinct. Later, this conception came to permeate French literature, and it was still later that we find in novels and plays the trio of the incomparable woman...
Fantasio shows the fantastic character of the author's writing, both in Fantasio's conversation and in the strange method he takes to prevent Elizabeth's marriage. De Musset was one of the best painters of the young girl. Elizabeth is the type of the young girl of Romanticism. Cecilia is not a romantic type but a simple candid young girl...
...author has presented his own character in Fantasio, and in all his other plays for that matter. In "Jacquetin" he has drawn an adorable and hateable picture of the heartless woman...
...Babine pas avec l' Amour" is the deepest and most substantial dramatic work of de Musset. In it the author has put most of his vivacity, gaiety and eloquence...