Ma petite voisine, par Auguste Gaud

Frederick Morgan - Childhood Sweethearts
Frederick Morgan – Childhood Sweethearts

Auguste Gaud (1857–1924) est un poète et écrivain poitevin. Fils d’un cordonnier et d’une couturière, il exerça le métier paternel avant de se lancer dans la littérature. À partir de 1903, il fut juge de paix.

Il publia d’abord de nombreuses œuvres en français ayant pour toile de fond la culture paysanne de sa région. A partir de 1895, il devint le chef de file du Félibrige Poitevin, un mouvement régionaliste qui, à l’instar du Félibrige de Frédéric Mistral, faisait la promotion du dialecte, de la culture et du folklore du Poitou-Saintonge. Il se mit alors à écrire des morceaux en poitevin-saintongeais. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…

Adelaide, the love in the life and poetry of Ernest Dowson, Part II

Ernest Dowson as an undergraduate
Ernest Dowson as an undergraduate – from Wikimedia Commons

In the first part of this essay, I told how Ernest Dowson met Adelaide Foltinowicz, aged eleven years and a half, whom he nicknamed “Missie” or “Missy,” then he started spending his evenings at her father’s restaurant where she worked as a waitress, and gradually fell in love with her. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…

Adelaide, the love in the life and poetry of Ernest Dowson, Part I

Charles Edward Conder - Ernest Dowson
Charles Edward Conder – Ernest Dowson, pencil (c.1890s) – National Portrait Gallery NPG 2209

In two previous articles, “Ernest Dowson and the Cult of Minnie Terry” (in Pigtails in Paint) and “Ernest Dowson and the ages of woman” (in this blog), I told that in his youth Ernest Dowson worshipped little girls, in particular the child actress Minnie Terry. But this infatuation remained somewhat on the surface, it did not really move his soul. Indeed, it vanished as soon as he met the true passion of his life, Adelaide Foltinowicz, a girl he nicknamed “Missie” or “Missy.” CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…

Ernest Dowson and the ages of woman

The writer Ernest Dowson (1867–1900) was a lover of young girls, his deep feelings for them are expressed in several of his poems, notably those that I published from his three collections Poésie Schublade, Verses, and Decorations. More insight can be gained from his correspondence, namely The Letters of Ernest Dowson edited by Desmond Flower and Henry Maas, and New Letters from Ernest Dowson edited Desmond Flower. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…

Indomitus

Robert Stevenson - Peggy Ann Garner dans Jane Eyre
Robert Stevenson – Peggy Ann Garner dans Jane Eyre (1943)

Poets and Lovers est toujours là, après 42 mois, ayant surmonté tous les obstacles sur son chemin. Le 20 avril, le registraire de nom de domaine Njalla (une compagnie fondée par des pirates informatiques), sous prétexte d’une supposée plainte contre Pigtails in Paint, bloqua les noms de domaine de tous les sites hébergés par notre fournisseur Internet. Celui-ci dut récupérer les codes pour transférer les domaines auprès d’un autre registraire. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…