12 THE PROBLEM IN TAINE 



Barzun, Romanticism and the Modern Ego, pp. 138, 302-305; represciitalive of 

 the neo-humanist point of view is Norman Foerster, Towards Standards: A 

 Study of the Present Critical Movement in Atnerican Letters, who carries the historical 

 analysis back to the Renaissance (pp. 34, 36, 80). 



7 Climaxed by Eliot's dramatic declaration that he was a royalist in politics, 

 an Anglo-Catholic in religion, and a classicist in literature (1928, in For 

 Lancelot Andrews) . 



8 Op. cit., p. ix. 



9 Babbitt, The Masters of Modern French Criticism, p. 341. 



10 'M. H. Taine, Artiste.' 



11 Ibid., p. 223, S. J.K. 



12 Ibid., p. 205, S. J.K. See also Hilda Laura Norman, 'The Personality of 

 Hippolyte Taine', which also stresses the contradictions in his character. On 

 the other hand, K. de Schaepdryver's Hippolyte Taine: Essai sur V unite de sa 

 pensee, finds an overall unity in Taine's personality and ideas, 'a prodigious 

 power of synthesis' [p. 163, S.J.K.]. 



13 See, for example, O. Petrovitch's excellent thesis, H. Taine, Historien 

 Litter aire du XV lie siecle, which attributes Taine's anti-classical taste 'to his 

 temperament, to the spirit of his time, to Shakespeare, and above all to 

 Stendhal . . .' [p. 55, S.J.K.]. Like Zola, Petrovitch found that 'Fortunately, 

 beside the man with a system, there is in Taine also an artist with a lively 

 sense of the beauties of literature, the latter correcting and completing the 

 former; and it was by virtue of the latter that his works surpassed his method' 

 [p. 83, S.J.K.]. 



14 History of Modern Philosophy in France, p. 430. 



15 Ibid., p. 422. 



16 Ibid., pp. 432-434. 



^"^ To the Finland Station, p. 51. 



18 La Crise philosophique, p. 52, S.J.K. 



19 Manual of the History of French Literature, p. 515. 



20 'L'CEuvre Critique de Taine', p. 221, S.J.K. 



21 Ibid., pp. 250-252. 



22 'The Social Background of Taine's Philosophy of Art', p. 332. 



23 Chevrillon, Taine, p. 407, S.J.K. 



