sainte beuve, n.Definitions

Sainte Beuve is a psychologist, a genius slander who knows better than anyone how to mix praise with poison.

Sainte Beuve is nothing of virility, full of petty wrath against all virile spirits.

Sainte Beuve is a man who wanders around, cowardly, curious, bored, eavesdropping--a female at bottom, with a female's lust for revenge and a female's sensuality.

Sainte Beuve is Plebeian in the lowest instincts and related to the ressentiment of Rousseau: consequently, a romantic -- for underneath all romantisme lie the grunting and greed of Rousseau's instinct for revenge.