Sainte-Beuve

[ sant-bœv ]

noun

1. Charles Au·gu·stin [sh, a, r, l oh-g, y, -, stan], 1804–69, French literary critic.

Sainte-Beuve

/ sɛ̃tbœv /

noun

1. Sainte-BeuveCharles Augustin18041869MFrenchWRITING: criticWRITING: essayist Charles Augustin (ʃarl oɡystɛ̃). 1804–69, French critic, best known for his collections of essays Port Royal (1840–59) and Les Causeries du Lundi (1851–62)

Example Sentences

It was through Saintsbury I came to read the French, especially Sainte-Beuve, and another critical line that interested me was Peacock/Meredith/Huxley.

From New York Times

“In just under 400 pages, Mr. Calasso manages to quote Goethe, Sainte-Beuve, the Upanishads, Frazer’s ‘Golden Bough,’ ‘Das Kapital,’ the German anthropologist Leo Frobenius . . . and several hundred other works in several languages,” the literary biographer James Atlas wrote in the Times.

From Washington Post

“Sainte-Beuve’s method ignores what a very slight degree of self-acquaintance teaches us,” he wrote.

From The New Yorker

One clue can be found in his unfinished critical work “Contre Sainte-Beuve,” in which he quotes this passage from the French literary critic Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve:

From The New Yorker

The music itself developed in response to a modern understanding of sadness: “chronic ennui,” an idea that runs from Evagrius to the 19th-century French Romantic literary critics — Baudelaire, Sainte-Beuve — to the time when Black Sabbath was kicking in to the culture.

From New York Times