Last Verses - Couverture souple

Laforgue, Jules

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1890650544 ISBN 13 : 9781890650544

Editeur : Omnidawn Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

The Last Verses of Jules Laforgue is the first full-length collection of free verse published in the French language and, in many ways, it remains far in advance of any free verse innovations conjured in the past one hundred years and more. Laforgue, in his famous Complaints and Harlequinades, was a profound influence upon such Modernist poets as Eliot and Pound. Yet in his Last Verses he set a precedent which no one as yet has managed to emulate or to advance. Why should this be? Simply put, Last Verses does not reject poetic formalism but, rather, projects it into uncharted and unvoiced regions of spiritual and sexual extremity. The freedom of these poems rests entirely in the purity of their despair, a purity not to be measured by any extant means. This music is made by no instrument but itself. This music is made on the farther shore of death.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lyrical and scathingly pessimistic, Uruguay-born French poet Jules Laforgue offered an urgent tone of despair and fatalism, often rendered with playfully provocative and cynical humor. In 1918 Ezra Pound said of him, "He is an exquisite poet, a deliverer of nations...a father of light." Among the most innovative of poets in the French language and a pioneer in the use of free verse, Laforgue was an important influence on the young T. S. Eliot. Notable also for his early protests for the liberation of women, Laforgue died in Paris in 1887 aged just 27.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Omnidawn Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1890650544
• ISBN 13: 9781890650544
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
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• Personne responsable: non disponible