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Excerpt from A Romance of Youth
If as a poet we contemplate him, Coppée belongs to the group commonly called Pamassiens - not the Romantic School, the sentimental lyric effusion of La martine, Hugo, or De Musset! When the poetical lute was laid aside by the triad of 18 30, it was taken up by men of quite different stamp, of even opposed tenden cies. Observation of exterior matters was now greatly adhered to in poetry; it became especially descriptive and scientific; the aim of every poet was now to render most exactly, even minutely, the impressions received, or faithfully to translate into artistic language a thesis of philosophy, a discovery of science. With such a po etical doctrine, you will easily understand the impor tance which the naturalistic form henceforth as sumed.
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