Note 70 — Chapter II · RHYTHM AS THE ESSENTIAL FACT OF POETRY

Gautier, too, thought that Flaubert had “invented a new rhythm” in prose, and described it; see the report of this, Journal des Goncourt, 1862, January 1. But later, in the same journal (1876, February 24), Goncourt refers all this sort of thing to Chateaubriand: “sa belle prose poétique, mère et nourrice de toutes les proses colorées de l’heure actuelle....”