Gourmont
Americannoun
noun
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"He became a sort of provincial Remy de Gourmont," says Critic Malcolm Cowley in his introduction to Selected Writings.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Not that de Gourmont, with his enormous knowledge, made many such mistakes!
From The Critical Game by John Albert Macy
Sceptical in all matters, though never the fascinating sophist that is Anatole France, De Gourmont criticised the thirty-six dramatic situations, reducing the number to four.
From Unicorns by James Huneker
De Gourmont is a wise man, who, like Socrates and William James, is not afraid to joke, and some of his perversities are uttered with his ironic tongue in his cheek.
From The Critical Game by John Albert Macy
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