Works: _La Poésie des Bêtes_, 1886; _le Clocher_, 1887; _la Bonne terre_, 1889; _Voix rustiques_, 1892; these are collected in the edition of _Poésies_, 2 vols., 1891-94. 293. LES GENÊTS. From _le Clocher_. PAUL DÉROULÈDE. 1846. Politician, as well as man of letters, he is known especially for his war lyrics, which have achieved a wide popularity. They are recommended more by the vigor of their patriotic sentiment than by their technical qualities. Works: _Chants du Soldat_, 1872; _Nouveaux Chants du Soldat_, 1875; Marches et Sonneries, 1881; _Refrains militaires_, 1888; _Chants du Paysan_, 1894. For reference: G. Larroumet, _Études de littérature et d'art_ vol. iii. 296. LE BON GÎTE. From _Nouveaux Chants du Soldat_. GEORGES BOUTELLEAU. 1846. He has won the attention of the smaller public of men of letters by the finish and delicacy of the short poems, which justify the titles of the volumes in which they have been collected by suggesting the art of the miniature painter and the worker in stained glass. Works: _Poèmes en miniature_, 1881; _le Vitrail_, 1887; _les Cimes_, 1893. 297. LE COLIBRI. From _Poèmes en miniature_. 298. LES DEUX OMBRES. From _le Vitrail_. LOUIS TIERCELIN. 1849. His work is distinguished by sentiment that is usually pure and sweet, sometimes deep and tender. Works: _Les Asphodèles_, 1873; _l'Oasis_, 1880; _les Anniversaires_, 1887; _les Cloches_, 1891; _Sur la Harpe_, 1897. 298. LE PETIT ENFANT. From _l'Oasis_. For the form of the triolet see the remarks on versification. GUY DE MAUPASSANT. 1850-1893. This famous master of the short story began his literary career, like Daudet, Theuriet, and Bourget, with a volume of verse. _Des Vers_, 1880. PAUL BOURGET. 1852. Like Maupassant, he early forsook poetry for the novel, and for literary criticism. His verse, like his prose, is the work of a psychologist, who observes and analyzes his own experiences. He is never so far possessed by his emotion as to cease to inspect it curiously. In the restlessness of his spirit, the unsettled currents of his moral atmosphere, his doubts and longings, he represents a large fraction of his generation. Works: _La Vie inquiète_, 1874; _Edel_, 1878; _les Aveux_, 1882; collected in two volumes with the title _Poésies_, 1885-87. For reference: J. Lemaître, _les Contemporains_, vol. ii, 1887; A. N. van Daell, _Extraits choisis des oeuvres de Paul Bourget_, Boston, 1894 (introduction and _lettre autobiographique_). 302. PRAETERITA is from _la Vie inquiète_; the other poems here given are from _les Aveux_. 13, 14; the second of November, _jour des Trépasses_, is in the church calendar the day of the special commemoration of the dead. ABEL HERMANT. 1862. Another who seems to have been won from poetry to the novel, in which field he has achieved some striking successes. His one volume of verse is _les Mépris_, 1883. See G. Pellissier, _Nouveaux essais de littérature contemporaine_, 1895.