« On n’a jamais bien jugé le romantisme ; qui l’aurait jugé ? les critiques !! Les romantiques, qui prouvent si bien que la chanson est si peu souvent l’œuvre, c’est-à-dire la pensée chantée et comprise du chanteur ? »
“Romanticism has never been carefully judged. Who would have judged it? The critics! The Romantics? who prove so obviously that a song is so seldom a work, that is to say, a thought sung and understood by the singer.”
– AR. Charleville, 15 May 1871
Christopher Marc Ford 