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GUERIN DU CAYLA, GEORGES See also:MAURICE DE (18x0-1839) , See also:French poet, descended from a See also:noble but poor See also:family, was See also:born at the See also:chateau of Le Cayla in See also:Languedoc, on the 4th of See also:August 181o. He was educated for the See also:church at a religious See also:seminary at See also:Toulouse, and then at the See also:College Stanislas, See also:Paris, after which he entered the society at La Chesnaye in See also:Brittany, founded by See also:Lamennais. It was only after See also:great hesitation, and without being satisfied as to his religious vocation, that under the See also:influence of Lamennais he joined the new religious See also:order in the autumn of 1832; and when, in See also:September of the next See also:year, Lamennais, who had come under the displeasure of See also:Rome, severed connexion with the society, Maurice de Guerin soon followed his example. See also:Early in the following year he went to Paris, where he was for a See also:short See also:time a teacher at the College Stanislas. In See also:November 1838 he married a See also:Creole See also:lady of some See also:fortune; but a few months afterwards he was attacked by See also:consumption and died on the 19th of See also:July 1839. In the Revue See also:des deux mondes for May 15th, 1840, there appeared a See also:notice of Maurice de Guerin by See also:George See also:Sand, to which she added two fragments of his writings—one a See also:composition in See also:prose entitled the Centaur, and the other a short poem. His Reliquiae (2 vols., 1861), including the Centaur, his See also:journal, a number of his letters and several poems, was edited by G. S. Trebutien, and accompanied with a See also:biographical and See also:critical notice by Sainte-Beuve; a new edition, with the See also:title Journal, lettres et poemes, followed' in 1862; and an See also:English See also:translation of it was published at New ' See also:York in 1867. Though he was essentially a poet, his prose is more striking and See also:original than his See also:poetry. Its See also:peculiar and unique See also:charm arises from his strong and absorbing See also:passion for nature, a passion whose intensity reached almost to See also:adoration and See also:worship, but in which the See also:pagan was more prominent than the moral See also:element. According to Sainte-Beuve, "no French See the notices by George Sand and Sainte-Beuve referred to above; Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi (vol. xii.) and Nouveaux Lundis (vol. iii.); G.

Merlet, Causeries sur See also:

les femmes et les livres (Paris, 1865); See also:Selden, L'Esprit des femmes de notre temps (Paris, 1864); Marelle, See also:Eugenie et Maurice de Guerin (See also:Berlin, 1869); Harriet See also:Parr, M. and E. de Guerin, a monograph (See also:London, 1870) ; and See also:Matthew See also:Arnold's essays on Maurice and Eugenie de Guerin, in his Essays in See also:Criticism.

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