11 letters found

1. 112 To Theo van Gogh. Dordrecht, Sunday, 22 and Monday, 23 April 1877.

   in translation:

   I know little of Taine’s life, I assume that he travelled a lot in France, Italy, England and also ...

   in note 23:

   Hippolyte Adolphe Taine was probably mentioned by Theo in his letter of 21 April. From letter 133 of ...

2. 133 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 30 October 1877.

   in note 2:

   There are a number of works by Hippolyte Adolphe Taine in which Van Gogh could have encountered passa...

   Vincent’s second poetry album for Theo (1875, see letter 029, n. 2) also contains seven fragments f...

   in translation:

   ...not unknown to me but didn’t read all of it, I found parts of it in another book, namely by Taine.

3. 143 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Wednesday, 3 April 1878.

   in note 7:

   Van Gogh could have taken this phrase from Taine’s essay on Carlyle in Histoire de la littérature ...

4. 155 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, between about Tuesday, 22 and Thursday, 24 June 1880.

   in note 4:

   ...e metaphor of the moulting bird occurs in Hippolyte Taine, History of English literature (1863), in ...

   in note 17:

   ...o moral depravity, were also described by Hippolyte Taine in Philosophie de l’art, iii, iv. 2 vols...

5. 175 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, between Wednesday, 12 and Saturday, 15 October 1881.

   in note 3:

   ...bout the intractability of nature also occurs in Zola and Taine. See Sund 1992, pp. 54, 277 (n. 11).

6. 325 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Monday, 5 March 1883.

   in note 40:

   This view is repeatedly encountered in Taine’s Histoire de la littérature anglaise. He writes: ‘...

7. 356 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 22 June 1883.

   in note 6:

   Hippolyte Taine wrote: ‘Le fond du caractère anglais, c’est le manque de bonheur’ in the fifth...

   in translation:

   Lately I read a curious comment in Taine (essay on Dickens). He says, ‘The essence of the English c...

8. 359 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 3 July 1883.

   in note 9:

   For this quotatoin from Taine, see letter 356, n. 6.

   in note 8:

   A reference to the article ‘M. H. Taine’ in Mes haines; see Zola 1966-1970, vol. 10, pp. 139-156....

   in translation:

   ... I just wanted to add, that he scores a hit on Taine, who deserves it because he’s sometimes irrit...

9. 419 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 4 January 1884.

   in note 7:

   The passage refers to what Taine says about Dickens in Histoire de la littérature anglaise. He obser...

   in translation:

   ...ns are concerned — I sometimes think of what Taine said, ‘it seems to me that as far as it is pe...

10. 574 To Willemien van Gogh. Paris, late October 1887.

    in note 22:

    This derives from Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, Histoire de la littérature anglaise who said in his ‘In...

11. 655 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Sunday, 5 August 1888.

    in note 9:

    Van Gogh believed in Hippolyte Taine’s view that true art was spawned by the society that produced ...

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