Gourmont
Americannoun
noun
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To the fury of Critic Remy de Gourmont, author of a famed biological theory of esthetics, puritanical Frenchmen covered the offending fact with a large bronze fig leaf.
From Time Magazine Archive
"He became a sort of provincial Remy de Gourmont," says Critic Malcolm Cowley in his introduction to Selected Writings.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of "Visionaries" Remy de Gourmont wrote, June 22, 1906: "I am convinced that you have written a very curious, very beautiful book, and one of that sort comes to us rarely."
From Unicorns by Huneker, James
Remy de Gourmont said that the essential thing is to search the eternal in the diverse and fleeting movements of form.
From Unicorns by Huneker, James
The physical laws," says De Gourmont, "promulgated or established by the scientists, are confessions of ignorance.
From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Gilbert, Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace)
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