IDENTITY
Pensées d’août
Literature
Work Summary
A poetry collection combining personal reflection with literary, moral and religious meditation. Its poems belong to Sainte-Beuve's attempt to unite intimate experience, intellectual reflection and contemporary literary culture.
Evidence Summary
The passage concerns the 'sleeping poet' within ordinary people.
Potential source behind a literary reflection, not securely identified as direct reading here.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Work
Pensées d’août
Years / Period
15 Jul 1875
Van Gogh Relation
Uncertain / Probable
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
15 Jul 1875 — Letter 38, note 3–4
Uncertain / Probable · Possible source / poetry-album familiarity
Editors note that Van Gogh knew Sainte-Beuve's poetry and may have encountered the relevant passage via L'Art.
Response: The passage concerns the 'sleeping poet' within ordinary people.
Connection: Potential source behind a literary reflection, not securely identified as direct reading here.
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Study Subject
Themes
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