Inspirational Quotes by Charles Du Bos (French Literary Critic)

Charles Du Bos (1882–1939) was a French critic of French and English literature. His writings on William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Byron helped foster French interest in English literature.

Born in Paris to an English mother, Du Bos was exposed to English literature at an early age. He studied at the University of Oxford for a year and in Germany. He contributed to many reviews, including the <em>Gazette des beaux‐arts</em> and the <em>Nouvelle Revue Française</em>; his articles are collected in Approximations (1922–37.)

Among Du Bos’s works are studies of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lord Byron, Gustave Flaubert, Prosper Mérimée, François Mauriac, and Benjamin Constant. He kept up an extensive correspondence with his friend André Gide, published as Le Dialogue avec André Gide (1929; 2nd ed., Lettres de Charles Du Bos et réponses d’André Gide, 1950.)

As Du Bos became older, his concern became increasingly religious, and his Journal Intime (6 vols., 1946–55,) written partly in English, is a testimony of the spiritual evolution that brought him into the Roman Catholic Church in 1927. In 1937, he left France for the University of Notre Dame in the United States, where he wrote What Is Literature? (1940.)

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