Moral Tales - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jules Laforgue, William Jay Smith (Translator), William Jay Smith (Introduction by)Publish date:1985-05-17Pages:194
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811209434ISBN-10:811209431UPC:9780811209434Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:EuropeanSize:7.91 x 5.21 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SCR0EJH2KB
Moral Tales
When Jules Laforgue's Moralités légendaires was published in 1887 a few months after his death at the age of twenty-seven, it was hailed as a masterpiece. In the words of Remy de Gourmont, it gave "the sensation (specially rare) that we have never read anything like it: the grape with all its velvet hues in the morning light, but with curious reflections and an air as if the seeds within had...
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811209434ISBN-10:811209431UPC:9780811209434Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:EuropeanSize:7.91 x 5.21 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SCR0EJH2KB
Laforgue, Jules: - Jules Laforge (1860-1887) was a French poet born in Uruguay. He moved to France in 1866 to attend school. Beginning in 1881, he spent five years as French reader to the empress Augusta of Germany. He retired in 1886, returned to Paris and married, but soon after came down with tuberculosis and passed away in 1887.Smith, William Jay: - William Jay Smith, American poet and...
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