Selected Poems of Jules Breton - Couverture rigide

Breton, Jules

Couverture rigide

ISBN 13 : 9798385215416

Editeur : Resource Publications (CA), 2024

Synopsis

Vincent van Gogh loved both art and poetry. He especially loved the nineteenth-century Realist art and French poetry of Jules Adolphe Aime Louis Breton (1827-1906). Both Breton's art and poetry focused on the French countryside, peasant themes and, at times, his Christian faith. Van Gogh copied a number of Breton's poems and sent them in letters to his brother, Theo, and to Anthon van Rappard, an artist friend. He also promised to send Breton's complete book of poems, Les Champs et la mer /The Fields and the Sea ) to Theo. This book includes Breton's original poems Van Gogh copied with translations and commentary on each poem by the translator. Most of Breton's poems were dedicated to fellow artists or poets. These metrical translations reflect the rhyme and meter of the original French poems. Breton became well known in America for his 1884 oil on canvas, Le chant de l'alouette/The Song of the Lark (Henry Field Memorial Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago). It was exhibited at the Chicago World's Fair in 1934 where First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt stated it was her own favorite painting. This book's aim is to introduce Breton's poetry to the English-speaking world.

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À propos des auteurs

Sharon Fish Mooney is author of Bending Toward Heaven: Poems After the Art of Vincent van Gogh and editor of A Rustling and Waking Within, an ekphrastic poetry anthology. Her own poetry and poetry translations have been published in various journals and anthologies. She has lectured on Van Gogh and Breton in the United States, Canada, The Netherlands, and France and lives in Ohio with her husband, Scott, also a poet.

Sharon Fish Mooney teaches nursing research online for Regis University, Denver, Colorado, and Indiana Wesleyan. She won the inaugural Frost Farm Prize for metrical poetry. Her poems have appeared in various journals including RUMINATE, The Lyric, The Evansville Review, String Poet, Christian Research Journal, First Things, Modern Age, The Lost Country, and Common Threads. She is poetry editor of the Journal of Christian Nursing. Sharon lives in Ohio with her husband Scott, also a poet.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Resource Publications (CA)
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798385215416
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 82
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible