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Excerpt from The Modern Language Review, 1914, Vol. 9: A Quarterly Journal Devoted to the Study of Medieval and Modern Literature and Philology
IT has been a custom to look upon Alfred de Vigny as the pessimist-poet, to consider him as a philosopher for whom no gleam of light ever broke through the clouds which overhang our universe, who looked upon life as a prison house from which there was no escape, Where it was our destiny to kill the endless days and nights in picking shreds of oakum, and who thought of death as a release only because it was annihilation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
