Derniers Vers / Jules Laforgue; Michael Collie, J.M. L'Heureux.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laforgue, Jules, Author.

Contributor:

Collie, Michael

Collie, Michael, Editor.

L'Heureux, J.M.

L'Heureux, J.M., Editor.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French poetry--19th century.

French poetry.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 111 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This edition of Laforgue's Dernier Vers stems from the editors' critical interest in the poems themselves and from their feeling that Laforgue has not been well represented by anthologies and selections, which have usually placed a wrong emphasis on his earlier, more blatantly decadent work. The twelve poems making up the Derniers Vers, written in 1886, the year before Laforgue's death, were previously thought to be a disconnected series. The editors show that they are, rather, a carefully planned and developed sequence, representing the successful resolution of artistic problems which had occupied the poet during the previous five or six years. To Laforgue, poetry as art, not communication, and throughout his life he had tried to discover a way of writing a poem the impact and character of which would be analogous to painting and music. This edition, prepared for English-speaking readers, will be particularly interest because of the important influence of the poems on Exra Pound, who called Laforgue "the most sophisticated of all French poets," and on T.S. Eliot, who acknowledged that the poetry he wrote in 1908 and 1909 "was directly drawn from a study of Laforgue," "if not quite the greatest French poet after Baudelaire ... certainly the most important technical innovator." The editors have drawn on previously unused manuscripts and papers for their informative and illuminating notes. They have also provided an Introduction which places Laforgue in historical and artistic perspective, and sheds interesting light on those aspects of his personal life which are reflected in his writing.

Contents:

Frontmatter

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

I. L’Hiver qui Vient

II. Le Mystère des trois cors

III. Dimanches

IV. Dimanches

V. Pétition

VI. Simple Agonie

VII. Solo de Lune

VIII. Légende

IX. « Oh ! qu’une, d'Elle-même ... »

X. « O géraniums diaphanes ... »

XI. Sur une Défunte

XII. « Noire bise, averse glapissante »

ABBREVIATIONS

GENERAL TEXTUAL NOTE

DETAILED TEXTUAL NOTES AND VARIANTS

CRITICAL NOTES

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Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

1-4875-7643-9

OCLC:

1153489488