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He should on and even obscene by glorified the expected that account be labelled erotic, that some, an English that the critic having gone so far as to say French stomach toughened by Zola might put up with Rodin, but it could hardly be expected that would tolerate him. It was this charge which Stevenson replied to in a spirited letter, in which he pointed out that Rodin was absolutely free from any false pandering tricks, that his statues were simple the English expressions of the beauty of love.
By comparison with the range of expression and gesture in Rodin's works almost every other sculptor seems like a musician playing one tune. Even the mighty Angelo did not manifest the range of action and mood present in Rodin. In "The Burghers ef Calais," those six citizens of the old city self-elected to surrender themselves to death so that their city may be saved, Rodin had been commissioned to do a single figure, but the theme as recorded in the old chronicles 35 AUGUSTE RODIN moved him that he determined to render it dramata complete group.
He should on and even obscene by glorified the expected that account be labelled erotic, that some, an English that the critic having gone so far as to say French stomach toughened by Zola might put up with Rodin, but it could hardly be expected that would tolerate him. It was this charge which Stevenson replied to in a spirited letter, in which he pointed out that Rodin was absolutely free from any false pandering tricks, that his statues were simple the English expressions of the beauty of love.