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Gourmont

American  
[goor-mawn] / gurˈmɔ̃ /

noun

  1. Remy de 1858–1915, French critic and novelist.


Gourmont British  
/ ɡurmɔ̃ /

noun

  1. Remy de (rəmi də). 1858–1915, French symbolist critic and novelist

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He experiments with the Remy de Gourmont idea, though he probably never saw it in print.

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After these the deluge, ending with the dream by the late Remy de Gourmont, Une Nuit au Luxembourg.

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Stendhal, Mallarmé, Georges Rodenbach, Rimbaud—that stepfather of symbolism —Emil Verhaeren—who is truly an elemental and disquieting force—Paul Adam, Maeterlinck, the late Remy de Gourmont—who contributed so much to contemporary thought in the making—Francis Jammes, Villiers de l'Isle Adam, Renard, Samain, Saint-Georges de Bouhelier, Jules Laforgue—and how many others, to be found in the pages of Vance Thompson's French Portraits, which valuable study dates back to the middle of the roaring nineties.

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Thus far, among the essayists, Remy de Gourmont, Camille Mauclair, Maeterlinck, Romain Rolland, J. H. Fabre, Jules Bois—now sojourning in America and a thinker of verve and originality—and Henry Houssaye, hold their own against the younger generation.

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Three critics of wide-reaching influence are dead since the war began: Emile Faguet, Jules Lemaître, and Remy de Gourmont.

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