MUSSET SAINTE-BEUVE / Signed autograph letter / Lord Byron / Poetry / Insults

  
Autographed letter signed "Ste Beuve" to Auguste Lacaussade? D, "this 21st of July," 1 p. Very slight foxing, small stains. Delightful comparison between Musset and Byron by the famous literary critic. "Thank you, dear friend - Thanks to you I have everything I need and more. You are absolutely right about Byron: one should only judge Musset after rereading Byron. Then one would have the true feeling of the insults and distances, but are we not the laziest of peoples when it comes to poets and poetry? A thousand thanks again to you.

" Presented to Alfred de Musset by Paul Foucher, Sainte-Beuve became an intimate of the poet. As a passionate defender of his literary work, he was one of Musset's confidants during his tumultuous relationship with George Sand. Upon the release of his Complete Poems in 1840, Sainte-Beuve said of him: "He dared to have spirit, even with a hint of scandal. Since Voltaire, spirit has been too forgotten in poetry; M.

De Musset brought it back in large part; with that, he had something that so few of our modern poets possess, passion." It is also known that Sainte-Beuve is the dedicatee of a poem by his friend, simply titled "To Sainte-Beuve" (New Poems, Charpentier, 1857).