Abstract

French Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature

This article presents information about the book "Mystique et Rèalists Anglo-Saxons d'Emerson à Bernard Shaw," by Par Règis Michaud. Professor Michaud has attempted to reveal what is not original and intimate in the Anglo-Saxon spirit as exemplified by nine writers whom he regards as typical representatives of the main movements of mind in English and American literature. The premise from which the general argument proceeds is that in the Anglo-Saxon nature there is an intermingling of mysticism and rationalism, of intuition on the one hand and of intelligence on the other and that in this nature, to a greater degree than in that of other peoples, there is the recognition that the mysteries of this unintelligible world are not all to be solved by logical processes.