This poem is attributed to Poe, however it does not appear in the list given by The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore, so a doubt remains about its authorship. According to the Classic Literature Library, it was written or published around October 26, 1831. This site includes it in the category “Edgar Allan Poe Doubtful Poems.” CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Voici ma quatrième sélection du livre Poèmes d’enfants publié par l’École Freinet. Comme le premier poème que j’y ai choisi, celui-ci a été écrit par une jeune fille de 11 ans. Tous deux témoignent par leur style d’une maturité proche de l’écriture d’un adulte, mais avec plus de vie. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
My third selection from Crowley’s collection Rodin in Rime (1907) belongs to the second section “Sonnets and Quatorzains,” whose poems have all 14 lines. Its French title “Femmes damnées” (translating as ‘doomed women’) comes from two poems in Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire, one of which (subtitled “Delphine et Hippolyte”) was banned by the French censorship between 1857 and 1949. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Voici ma troisième sélection du livre Poèmes d’enfants publié par l’École Freinet chez Casterman en 1975 : une fantaisie onirique et sentimentale, dans laquelle une petite fille lie son sort à une fleur. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Lord Byron’s long poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage was published between 1812 and 1818, the first two Cantos in 1812, the third in 1816 and the fourth in 1818, and each edition added some new material. The seventh edition appeared on February 1, 1814, with nine poems added to the twenty already published, and a poem titled “To Ianthe” was prefixed to the First Canto. Written in the autumn of 1812, it was dedicated to Lady Charlotte Harley. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
I present today a second poem from the section “Various Measures” in the collection of verses Rodin in Rime. Youth directly feel the truth of love and life by dancing and holding each other, while old people try to reach it by pondering. The poet says: roll back the wheel of time and rejoin youth. Yielding to the ecstasy of love and dance, all ages can be one with eternity. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Voici ma seconde sélection du livre Poèmes d’enfants publié par l’École Freinet (Casterman, 1975). Écrit par une très jeune petite fille, il déborde de fraîcheur naïve. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
In this other well-known poem by Ransom, a little girl wakes up and finds that her hen has died, which causes her a great grief. The setting of this little childhood drama in a farm reflects the idyllic view of country life held by ‘Southern Agrarians’. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
A sweet and tender poem addressed to a child, from The Shadow of Death (1893), the third collection of verses by Stenbock (available on Internet Archive). As in many poems of that collection, he stresses that spring is not for him. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Crowley’s collection of verses Rodin in Rime was published in 1907. After an author’s note “Auguste Rodin and the Nomenclature of his Works,” subtitled “A Study in Spite,” which looks like an incomprehensible polemic against unnamed persons, the first poem “Rodin” is presented as “Frontispice.” Then follow two groups of poems, of variable length in “Various Measures,” then with 14 lines each in “Sonnets and Quatorzains.” Most of them have a French title. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
