"There is only one type of decadence which is dangerous in art and literature, and unfortunately critics seldom scourge it as it deserves: it consists in being conventional and imitative, in tritely expressing cheap and superficial emotions."
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Academics from the United StatesPeople from ParisLinguists from the United StatesYale University facultyEmigrants
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Writers & Their Critics, Ithaca, New York, 1944.
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Henri Peyre
Henri Maurice Peyre (21 February 1901 β 9 December 1988) was an American linguist and literary scholar of French origin.
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