‘Classical qualities, classical form’ are easy words to say. What exactly do they mean? They imply an idea of excellence; they imply also clearness, sobriety, the art of composition; they mean, finally, that reason, rather than imagination and sensibility, presides over the execution of the work, and that the writer dominates his material.
—Jules Lemaître, “Guy De Maupassant,” Literary Impressions (Kennikat Press, 1971)
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