Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Hippolyte Taine
Born: April 21, 1828
Died: March 5, 1893 (aged 64)
Bio: Hippolyte Adolphe Taine was a French critic and historian. He was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism.
Known for:
- History of English literature (1872)
- Notes on England
- The Ancient Regime (1876)
- Les origines de la France contemporaine (1855)
- The Philosophy of Art (1870)