person
Félix Arvers
Arvers
also: Felix Arvers
French poet (1806--50); dying in hospital, he roused himself to correct a nun's mispronunciation of 'corridor'---for Malte an instance not of pedantry but of a poet's hatred of the approximate.
Reading notes
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge §331 Felix Arvers
Félix Arvers (1806--50), French poet; dying in hospital, he roused himself to correct a nun's mispronunciation of 'corridor'---for Malte, not pedantry but a poet's hatred of the approximate.