Maeterlinck's close realism, however, does give him certain advantages-the helplessness of the grandfather, for instance, is far more pathetic than the spectacle of the girl dashing herself against the door, though it does not move us so directly.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell
The whole work must once have been a glorious creation, with its rich colours, its beautiful architectural forms, and its mingling of purest imagination with realism.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
realism of the most ghastly truthfulness, as to a corpse in the grave, it certainly is.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue