Montegut, E: John Mitchel -

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Excerpt from John Mitchel: A Study of Irish Nationalism

A word on Montegut himself. He died in 1895, and has not been very fortunate in his posthumous reputation. Even in his lifetime he had less fame than was due. But the historians of French literature unite to praise him. M.

Faguet speaks of his Vigorous and original outlook, his very delicate taste, his courage before paradox - Montegut described Hamlet as the most energetic of men. I have rarely, says Professor Saintsbury, found any work, short of the aristotelian-longinian-coleridgian class stand the test of re-reading better than his. With a little luck Montegut might have acquired the reputation of a Sainte Beuve or a Taine. But he was constantly engaged in hackwork, and he failed to realise that a critic must write much and repeat his text if his work is to survive. At the same time his essays are a real storehouse of ideas, and he was free from many of the delusions of Taine and his epoch. Most of his work ap peared in the Revue de: Deux M andef, including his greatly praised Boccaccio. He began to write for that Review about 1850, and soon became known as an expert critic of English literature and affairs. He translated Shakespeare, Emerson and Macaulay, a rather curious company.

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