Gourmont

And Gourmont has the phrase "fecundating a generation of bodies as genius fecundates a generation of minds."

Gourmont differentiates his characters by the modes of their sensibility, not by sub-degrees of their state of civilization.

Needless to say, Gourmont's essays are of uneven value as the necessary subject matter is of uneven value.

In contradiction to, in wholly antipodal distinction from, Henry James, de Gourmont was an artist of the nude.

One might make an index of, but one cannot write an essay upon, the dozen volumes of Gourmont's collected discussions.