237. BRUNETTE. From le Bleu et le Noir.
238. LES PAYSANS. From le Livre de la Payse.
GEORGES LAFENESTRE.
1837.
Though he is perhaps more widely known as a critic of art than as a poet, his poems have a certain distinction by reason of their deep and serious thought and their clear and noble expression.
Works: Les Espérances, 1864; Idylles et Chansons, 1874. The poems here given are from Idylles et Chansons.
240. 21. MICHEL-ANGE, Michaelangelo.
FÉLIX FRANK.
1837.
He is chiefly known to the world of scholars by his studies in literary history and his editions of writers of the Renaissance.