Gregh, La Maison de l’Enfance

ÉTUDES LITTÉRAIRES

early years of tlie present century, Adoré Floupette will sit down among the Forty.

This crisis that the bourgeois public and its critics believed to be the final agony of French poetry was, in fine, nothing hut a crisis in its development. The time has come for us to study this development. I shall pass over the individual characteristics, the divergencies, and contradictions of the new school, that I may confine myself more closely to its common tendencies and its general results. I should like to show' by wdiat means, and by what elforts, French poetry, wdiich sixty years of glorious production threatened to leave petrified in a condition of deadly inactivity, regained the impetus necessary for its life.