René Armand François PRUDHOMME, dit SULLY PRUDHOMME

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René Armand François PRUDHOMME, dit SULLY PRUDHOMME
Poet, first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1901 (Paris 1839 - Châtenay-Malabry (92) 1907). Letter A.S. "SULLY-PRUDHOMME", Châtenay 10 January 1904, to Madame la Générale (LOIZILLON) on the art of poetry. 4pp in-8° - (some consolidations) "Forgive me for answering so late... I have been ill for two years and overwhelmed by innumerable obligations... I have closed my apartment in Paris to come to Châtenay to take care of myself more easily in retirement and to escape the fatigue of Parisian life. I have only been able to read a little of your young nephew's kind brochure, I had until then been overwhelmed by professional occupation. I associate myself with the encouragement given by Charles Fuste to this very very gifted beginner in his preface; but it would have been preferable that Mr. Pierre Daveaux had waited for the full maturity of a talent before publishing verses. I am very grateful to him for having resisted the current of reckless reforms which still today lead to too many young poets. The old forms are perfectly sufficient for him to express all the emotions, even the most personal and even the most delicate, I regret all the more in these poems certain incorrectness, certain negligence that a longer practice of our Art would have enabled him to avoid..." he speaks of the construction of rhymes, he quotes Alfred de Musset. He dissuades him, to make it his career with the hope of finding resources to live on. "The House I live in is located at number 22 of the Chemin des Princes, next to Madame SEDILLE's property, where I met General LOIZILLON more than once...".
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