Sully-Prudhomme

[ sy-lee-pry-dawm ]

noun

1. Re·né Fran·çois Ar·mand [r, uh, -, ney, f, r, ah, n, -, swa, , a, r, -, mahn], 1839–1907, French poet: Nobel Prize 1901.

Sully-Prudhomme

/ sylli prydɔm /

noun

1. Sully-PrudhommeRené François Armand18391907MFrenchWRITING: poet René François Armand (rəne frɑ̃swa armɑ̃). 1839–1907, French poet: Nobel prize for literature 1901

Example Sentences

In the later ’sixties, with Fran�ois Copp�e, Sully-Prudhomme, Paul Verlaine and others less distinguished, he made one of the band of poets who gathered round Leconte de Lisle, and received the name of Parnassiens.

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This was a certain and undeniable case, and Sully-Prudhomme returned to his home with me as thoroughly convinced as I am.

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I feel fingers which press as those of M. Sully-Prudhomme, my neighbor on the right, might do.

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Mommsen German 1901 R. F. A. Sully-Prudhomme French Yeats is noted aside from his literary work for his activities on behalf of the Irish Free State.

From Time Magazine Archive

If any of the guests were acquainted with matters literary or artistic, they were usually discreet enough to remain silent out of deference to the host; but on one occasion a school friend of Helen's, from Boston, hearing some remarks about the last story of Bourget, took the opportunity to start a discussion upon the poetic psychology of Sully-Prudhomme, which was greeted in a manner that made the poor girl fancy she had said something very indiscreet.

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