Poems of Guido Gezelle : a bilingual anthology / edited by Paul Vincent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gezelle, Guido, 1830-1899, author.

Contributor:

Vincent, Paul (Paul F.), editor, translator.

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Open Access e-Books

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Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English

Language:

Dutch

English

Subjects (All):

Gezelle, Guido, 1830-1899--Translations into English.

Gezelle, Guido.

Flemish poetry--Translations into English.

Flemish poetry.

Lyric poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 235 pages)

Place of Publication:

London, England : UCL Press, 2016.

Language Note:

Text in English and Dutch.

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text file

Summary:

The Bruges-born poet-priest Guido Gezelle (1830–1899) is generally considered one of the masters of nineteenth-century European lyric poetry. At the end of his life and in the first two decades of the twentieth century, Gezelle was hailed by the avant-garde as the founder of modernFlemish poetry. His unique voice was belatedly recognised in the Netherlandsand often compared with his English contemporary Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889).In this bilingual anthology, award-winning translator Paul Vincent selects a representative picture of Gezelle’s output, from devotional through narrative, to celebratory and expressionistic. Gezelle’s favourite themes are childhood, the Flemish landscape, friendship, nature, religion and the Flemish vernacular, and his apparently simple poems conceal a sophisticated prosody and a dialogue with spiritual and literary tradition.

Contents:

Ten Versions of `O Lied'

POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS

Poems in chronological order (*previously unpublished translation)

1848

De Mandelbeke

The Mandel Stream (fragment, Swepstone)

1852

Aanroepinge

Reply in Verses (Van Eyken)*

1855

Boodschap van de vogels en andere opgezette dieren

Message from the Birds and Other Stuffed Animals (Van Eyken)*

De averulle en de blomme

The Cockchafer and the Flower (Vincent)*

Timpe, tompe, terelink

Hyder Iddle Diddle Dum (Lovelock)*

1857

Het schrijverke (Gyrinus natans)

The Watter-Scriever (Gyrinus natans) (Morgan)

O'truischen van het ranke riet

Oh! The Rustling of the Slender Reed (Swepstone)

Aan de leeuwerke in de lucht

To the Lark in the Sky (Vincent)*

1858

Ik droome alree

I Dream E'en Now (Vincent)*

Een bonke keerzen kind

A Bunch of Cherries, Child (Holmes)

Dien avond en die rooze

That Evening and That Rose (Stillman)

In de blanke lonken

In the White Moon Winking (Claes/D'haen)

Zilverblanke zwanen

Silvery White Swans (Vincent)*

Rammentati

Rammentati (Van Eyken)*

1859

't Er viel 'ne keer ...

A Little Leaf Once Fluttered ... (Jones)

Wie zijt gij

What Are You? (Van Eyken)*

Ik misse u

I Miss You (Vincent)*

Een dreupel poesij

A Drop of Poetry (King)*

God is daar

Cod is There (Van Eyken)*

Als de ziele luistert

When the Soul Listens (Swepstone)

Ter inleidinge

Introduction (Vincent)*

Kerkhofblommen

Churchyard Flowers (fragment, Van Eyken)*

Gij badt op eenen berg

You Prayed on the Mountainside, Alone (Brockway)

Blijdschap

Joy (Roosbroeck)

Hoort't is de wind

Hark! It's the Wind (Van Eyken)

`k Hoore tuitend' hoornen

Hark, Bugles Are Calling (Lovelock)*

Boerke Naas

Farmer Nick (Jones)*

Slaapt, slaapt, kindtje slaapt

Sleep, Baby, Sleep! (Van Eyken)*

1860

Gelukkig kind

Happy Child (King)*

's Avonds

Evening (Van Eyken)*

Daar liep een dichtje in mijn gebed

A Little Verse Ran through My Prayer (King)*

Gij zegt dat 't Vlaamsch te niet zal gaan

You Say That Flemish Soon Will Die (Irons)

Tot de zonne

To the Sun (Bithell)

Hoe stille is 't als de donder dreegt

How Still before the Thunder Comes (Van Eyken)

Niet

Nothing (Van Eyken)*

1861

`t zij vroeg of laat

Right Soon or Late (Van Eyken)

1862

`t Laatste

The Last (Vincent)*

Hangt nen truisch

Hang a Sash (Vincent)*

1866

Heidensch lied

Pagan Song (Van Eyken)

1870

Halleluja

Hallelujah (Van Eyken)*

1872

Verloren moeite

Wasted Effort (Van Eyken)

1877

O dichtergeest

O Poetry (Vincent)*

En durft gij mij

And Do You Dare (Vincent)*

1879

De Vlaamsche taal

Our Flemish Speech (Barnouw)

1880

O vrienden

O Friends (Van Eyken)

1882

O wilde en overvalschte pracht

O Wild and Perfect Harmony (Van Eyken)*

Wat hangt gij daar te praten

What Is It Then Attracts Thee (Swepstone)

1883

Mijn hert is als een blomgewas

My Heart Is Like a Tender Flower (Swepstone)

1886

Drie dingen

Three Burdens (Van Eyken)*

1888

De nachtegalen klinken

The Nightingales Are Calling (Hare)

1890

O blomme

O Flower (Van Eyken)*

1891

Moederken

Little Mother (Swepstone)*

Zonnewende

Sunspurge (Lovelock)*

1892

Verloren is 't gepijnd

We Strive in Vain (Van Eyken)*

1893

Fiat Lux

Fiat Lux (Van Eyken)*

't Avondt, 't Avondt; traag en treurig

Evening Slowly Veils the Skies (Van Eyken)

Naar het kribbeken des heeren

The Crib (Van Eyken)*

De ramen

Church Window (Van Eyken)

O leeksken licht

O Leak of Light (Claes/D'haen)

'k En ete niet, of 't gene ik ete

I Never Eat but What I Eat (Claes/D'haen)

1894

Den ouden brevier

The Old Breviary (Vincent)*

Hoe zeere vallen ze af

How Soon They All Drop Down (Vincent)*

1895

Slapende botten

Sleeping Buds (Claes/D'haen)

1896

Casselkoeien

The Cassel Cows (Swepstone)

Hier ben ik

Here Am I (Van Eyken)*

Wintermuggen

Winter Midges (Claes/D'haen)

Tranen

Tears (Claes/D'haen)

1897

Jam Sol Recedit

lam sol recedit (Claes/D'haen)

Twee horsen

Twa Aivers (Lovelock)*

Bonte abeelen

The Aspen Tree (Bithell)

Winterstilte

Winter Quiet (Bithell)

Gierzwaluwen (Cypselus Apus)

Swifts (Cypselus Apus)

Op krukken

Yearning (Van Eyken)

Juvabit!

Comfort (Van Eyken)*

Jordane van mijn hert

Oh, Jordan of My Heart (Vincent)*

Klopt het om de messe

The Church Calls Us All to Mass (Van Eyken)*

In Speculo

In Speculo (Claes/D'haen)

1898

Ego Flos ...

Ego Flos ... (Weevers)

`k En hoore u nog niet

I Cannot Hear You Yet (Vincent)*

Slaaplied

Christmas Lullaby (Van Eyken)*

Voorbij ...

To...? (Lovelock)*

Aan...?

To...?

Poems originally in English

To a Friend on the Eve of May 1858

Arise Ye Flemings! (fragment)

Full Fifty Years

O Holy Pathmos

Ladies and Gentlemen

May Your Friends.

Notes:

"First published in 1999 by the UCL Centre for Low Countries Studies"--Title-page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print record, CIP data from the publisher, and e-publication e-publication, viewed on July 01, 2020.

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ISBN:

1-910634-94-8

OCLC:

964554575

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