Paul Stapfer Explained

Paul Stapfer (1840 - 1917) was a French essayist, born in Paris, and educated at the Bonaparte Lyceum. After serving as tutor in the family of François Guizot, he became a professor at Grenoble. In 1883, he accepted a similar professorship at Bordeaux. Stapfer's essays are remarkable for their clarity of style, perfection of finish and accuracy of detail. He edited the Grands écrivains series. Among his works are:

• Petite comédie de la critique littéraire de Molière selon les trois écoles philosophiques (1866)
• Fragment Inedit (1870)^[1]
• Causeries guernesiaises (1881)
• Laurence Sterne, sa personne et ses ouvrages (second edition, Paris, 1882)
• Shakespeare et l'antiquité (1883), which revealed to anti-Stratfordians the depth of its subject's knowledge of Latin and his formidable acquaintance with Greek.
• Goethe et ses deux chefs-d'œuvre classiques (1881)
• Racine et Victor Hugo (1886)
• Rabelais, sa personne, son génie, son œuvre (1889)
• Montaigne (1894)
• La grande prédication chrétienne en France: Bossuet, Adolphe Monod (1898)
• Des réputations littéraires and Victor Hugo et la grande poésie satirique en France (1901)
• Questions esthétiques et religieuses (1906)
• Etudes sur Goethe (1906)^[2]
• Vers la vérité (1909)

Notes and References

1. Laurence Sterne and Henry Baker's The Microscope Made Easy. New, Melvyn. 1970. Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 10. 3. 591-604. JSTOR. 10.2307/449798.
2. Reviewed Work: Etudes sur Goethe by Paul Stapfer. von Klenze. Camillo. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology . 8. 1909. 135-138. JSTOR.