A strong proponent that the comprehension of a work must involve the study of the author's biography, FTP name this French literary critic whose ideas were argued against in a famous essay by Marcel Proust.
In one essay he argued that while England could revivify its language by looking back to Shakespeare and Italy by looking to Dante, his countrymen lack "those sacred reserves . . . and have to draw from the present and ourselves." He published one novel, Volupte, and a multi-volume history of the Jansenists, but he is better remembered for non-fiction collected in volumes such as Monday Chats and Chateaubriand and His Literary Circle. A strong proponent that the comprehension of a work must involve the study of the author's biography, FTP name this French literary critic whose ideas were argued against in a famous essay by Marcel Proust.
In one essay he argued that while England could revivify its language by looking back to Shakespeare and Italy by looking to Dante, his countrymen lack "those sacred reserves . . .
Charles-Augustin de {Sainte-Beuve}