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
The Columbia University professor would be far more likely to indorse the axiom of Remy de Gourmont that style is physiological, which Flaubert well knew.
From Unicorns by Huneker, James
A pioneer in new æsthetic pastures, De Gourmont is a poet for poets.
From Unicorns by Huneker, James
Remy de Gourmont is the Admirable Crichton of French letters.
From Unicorns by Huneker, James
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