La passion sauvage de l’amour se moque des conventions sociales. Sa fureur incendiaire ravage tout sur son passage, emportant les âmes. Les véritables amants, révoltés insoumis, s’attirent immanquablement la haine et la persécution. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Crowley’s 1905 collection Oracles, subtitled The Biography of an Art, consists of unpublished poems written between 1886 and 1903. According to The 100th Monkey Press, Crowley had planned to publish a special limited edition, printed in one hundred copies only, and containing additional matter; however it never materialized. Moreover, ten poems in it were originally meant to appear in a separate collection titled Green Alps, which was never published, as a fire at the publisher destroyed it. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
La poétesse et romancière française Antonine Coullet-Tessier, née à La Roche-sur-Yon le 10 janvier 1892 et morte à Caen le 28 avril 1983, connut un certain succès comme enfant poète, publiant à onze ans son premier recueil, Poésies d’une enfant (Lemerre, 1903, 71 pages). En 1904, elle fit paraître plusieurs poèmes dans la livraison du 15 juillet de la Revue des Deux Mondes, qui les présenta en ces termes : CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) was an Anglican priest, a university professor, social reformer, historian and novelist. I have chosen the following short poem from his collection Songs, Ballads, etc. published in Volume 1 of The works of Charles Kingsley. A longer version, titled “A Farewell: To C.E.G” and with 3 stanzas, has been given in Poets’ Corner. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Je présente aujourd’hui un troisième poème du recueil Poésies d’une Enfant publié début 1903. J’ai choisi celui qui me semble le plus beau, il se trouve dans la section Nature. Antonine Coullet le composa à dix ans, son thème est la lune, ce petit luminaire qui semble avoir si bien inspiré la jeune poétesse. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
John Lee Curtis Williamson, better known as Sonny Boy Williamson I, was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter. He was born in Madison County, Tennessee, near Jackson, on March 30th, 1914. At age 16 he started to follow the Mississippi River north with his harmonica to seek a life as a musician. For this reason, he picked up the nickname Sonny Boy. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Michel Polnareff est un auteur-compositeur-interprète et pianiste français, né le 3 juillet 1944 à Nérac (Lot-et-Garonne). Il connut un large succès dans la deuxième moitié des années 1960, il était alors un emblème de la génération Salut les copains. Sa carrière déclina par la suite. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
The American businessman, poet and humanitarian Samuel Ullman was born in 1840 in Germany, in a Jewish family which emigrated to the USA in 1851. After a brief service in the Confederate Army, he married, started a business, served as a city alderman, and was a member of the local board of education. He also became president and then lay rabbi in a Jewish congregation. After retirement, he found more time for writing letters, essays and poetry. He died in 1924.
He is famous for his prose poem “Youth,” which he wrote at the age of 78. This poem is better known in Japan than in the USA, because General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander in Japan, hung a framed copy of it on the wall of his office in Tokyo and often quoted from it in his speeches. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Ma belle de quatre mille jours, je bois tes doux baisers de cerise, ta fleur blanche me captive, engloutis-moi ! CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
The collection Oracles, subtitled The Biography of an Art, consists of unpublished poems written by Crowley between 1886 and 1903. It was first published in 1905, then included in Volume II of The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley (1906), where the editor mentions:
Concerning the title Crowley writes, “The sense is of dead leaves drifting in the dusty cave of my mind.”
My first choice in it is a strange love poem, both sensuous and grim. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
