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At seventeen, he had heard his neoclassical poetry publicly proclaimed by
his teacher John Braillard, normally a brutal critic, to be superior to that
of Jacques Delille, “the French Virgil”, an immortal of the Académie
Française. After that, Saussure never wrote another line of verse...
>
Strange response, eh?
P
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> The poet who could smell vowels
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