Excerpt from Pour La Couronne His accurate, detailed descriptions of the scenes in which his poems are laid led Zola to think that naturalism in verse had become a reality. He praises the poet because he descends without platitude to details hitherto considered the least poetic. But Zola was in the wrong. Coppee's little sketches, with their pathos, pleasing irony, and be lief in better things, have nothing in common with the brutal, pessimistic productions of the author of la Terra and his followers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.