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CHATEAUBRIAND François René de(1768-1848) Manuscript written in part by Hyacinthe Pilorge (9 lines), annotated and corrected by Chateaubriand. (s.l.n.d. [1836]), 1 p. in-4. Wormhole outside text. Interesting, heavily corrected manuscript of the last page of his 1836 "Essai sur la littérature anglaise", in which he gives his opinion on Shakespeare, Milton, the so-called poets of the night and the tombs, Walter Scott and Lord Byron. "When, at the beginning of my life, England ( word missing) offered me refuge, I translated a few verses by Milton to meet the needs of exile: now back in my homeland, approaching the end of my career, I still have recourse to the poet of Eden. The poet of Paradise Lost was no richer than I: seated among his daughters, deprived of the light of heaven (sun), but illuminated by the torch of his genius, he dictated his (immortal) verses to them. I have no daughters; I can (still) contemplate the star of day, but I cannot say like (you) the blind man of Albion: How glorious one above thy sphear! "Sun! I would once have eclipsed your light! Milton (you) served Cromwell; I fought (Bonaparte) Napoleon: he attacked kings; I defended them: he did not hope for their forgiveness; I did not count []".

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CHATEAUBRIAND François René de(1768-1848) Manuscript written in part by Hyacinthe Pilorge (9 lines), annotated and corrected by Chateaubriand. (s.l.n.d. [1836]), 1 p. in-4. Wormhole outside text. Interesting, heavily corrected manuscript of the last page of his 1836 "Essai sur la littérature anglaise", in which he gives his opinion on Shakespeare, Milton, the so-called poets of the night and the tombs, Walter Scott and Lord Byron. "When, at the beginning of my life, England ( word missing) offered me refuge, I translated a few verses by Milton to meet the needs of exile: now back in my homeland, approaching the end of my career, I still have recourse to the poet of Eden. The poet of Paradise Lost was no richer than I: seated among his daughters, deprived of the light of heaven (sun), but illuminated by the torch of his genius, he dictated his (immortal) verses to them. I have no daughters; I can (still) contemplate the star of day, but I cannot say like (you) the blind man of Albion: How glorious one above thy sphear! "Sun! I would once have eclipsed your light! Milton (you) served Cromwell; I fought (Bonaparte) Napoleon: he attacked kings; I defended them: he did not hope for their forgiveness; I did not count []".

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