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…
Quand René Julliard publia les premiers poèmes de Minou Drouet en 1955, de nombreux critiques crièrent à la supercherie, affirmant que sa mère adoptive, Claude Drouet, en était le véritable auteur. Ainsi André Breton affirma, invoquant les travaux du psychologue Jean Piaget : « il n’est pas une enfant de cet âge et bien au-delà, qui puisse, par elle-même et à elle seule, écrire ce qu’on prête à Minou Drouet. » Dans un entretien avec André Parinaud, Michèle Perrein, reporter du journal Elle et principale propagandiste de la thèse de l’imposture, usa également d’un pareil argument : 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…
La pédagogie Freinet, basée sur l’expression libre des enfants, fut mise au point par Célestin et Élise Freinet et appliquée dans l’école qu’ils fondèrent à Vence, dans le département des Alpes-Maritimes. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
John Crowe Ransom (April 30, 1888 — July 3, 1974) was an American teacher, writer and editor. He is renowned both as a poet and a literary critic. He wrote most of his poems between 1915 and 1927. Together with fifteen other academics and students at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, he founded the group called ‘the Fugitives’ after their magazine The Fugitive (1922–1925). They had a special interest in Modernist poetry, and they published works by Modernist poets, but mainly from the Southern part of the United States of America (the former Confederacy). In 1930, he joined a group of twelve writers who would be called ‘Southern Agrarians’. They denounced industrialism and urbanization, which they saw as an alienating force destroying traditional culture, and they counterposed to it the traditional values of an agarian economy, as it existed in the South before the Civil War. As writes the Poetry Foundation: CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Dans son livre Minou Drouet : ses messages de lumière, Les Éditions Véga (1958), Georgette Corot-Gélas reproduit ce petit mot de Minou, qu’elle présente comme suit : CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
In 1893, Stenbock published at The Leadenhell Press in London his third collection of verses, The Shadow of Death, subtitled A Collection of Poems, Songs, and Sonnets. The 1984 reprinting by Garland Publishing, New York, is available in digital form on Internet Archive. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
