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Paul Vigil Classic Fantastic Pdf 138
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These exquisite sensibilities, when they were not turned back uponthemselves in black despair, roamed far and wide in search of newsensations upon which to exercise themselves. This exotisme, as theFrench have called it, is another of the most marked symptoms ofRomanticism. The time was ripe for its satisfaction. The French mind,shut for so long in the formalism of the eighteenth century, now foundthat there were innumerable new ways to rêver la rêve de la vie. Themen of learning who followed in Napoleon's wake renewed the interest inarchæology by their discoveries; the historical novels of Scott and thehistory of Michelet revealed the full and generous life of earlier ages;the forged poems of Ossian caused a perfect rage for Celtic mysticism;and the bold lawless life of the East, with its tyrannous Ali Pashas andits Greek patriots, shone out with a new splendour. An unsatisfiedlonging for another age and another clime animated every young breast.Societies even were formed in provincial towns in which subscriptionswere pooled, and the winner of the lucky number drew the money to take avoyage in Italy. The glories of Greece and the grandeurs of Rome, assavouring of the classical, appealed only to a few; other eclectics fedupon German mysticism and the fantastic weirdness of Hoffmann'ssupernatural tales. A far greater number became Celts in imagination;dressed in the dignity of outlawry and the garb of an Irish bard or aScotch chieftain, they defied the haughty English. Maxime du Camp, forinstance, wrote a poem in his school-days called "Wistibrockl'Irlandais." "When I am depressed," he says in his reminiscences, "Iread it again, and there is no vexation that resists it." Anybody whowishes to gain some idea of the genre frénétique, as Nodier called it,in its Celtic dress will derive considerable entertainment from PétrusBorel's "Madame Putiphar." It is full of murders and intrigues andtirades which foam at the mouth. The hero, Patrick FitzWhyte, falls inlove with Deborah Cockermouth, daughter of Lord and Lady Cockermouth,the opening dialogue of whom upon the battlements is magnificent. Mylord, who is described as "one of those gigantic fungous and spongyzoophytes indigenous to Great Britain," permits himself to address mylady as "Saint-hearted milk soup!" After a good deal of clandestinephilandering and interminable translations of imaginary Irish balladsthe young couple elope to Paris, where Madame Putiphar (Madame dePompadour) seduces the heroine, and the hero after a series of dreadfuladventures is imprisoned in a loathsome dungeon in the Bastille, thetaking of which by the people of Paris is described with quiteastonishing force. 2b1af7f3a8