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The Jungle Poems Of Leconte De Lisle

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Product Code: 9781941561089
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David R. Slavitt, award-winning author of more than 100 books of poetry and prose, translates the work of Charles Marie RenE Leconte de Lisle, a French poet associated with the Parnassian movement. -To look at Leconte de Lisle now, - writes Slavitt in the book's introduction, -is to discover a sensibility strikingly similar to that of Elizabeth Bishop (with Africa instead of Brazil as his mise en scEne). In some ways, he reminds me, too, of Wallace Stevens, stuck up in the fog of Hartford and longing for the glare of the tropics ('Home from Guatemala, back at the Waldorf'). He was an accomplished classicist who translated Homer's Iliad and the 'Eumenides' of Aschylus. But it is as a poet that he fascinates me, and particularly as one whose technical abilities are impressive and whose subjects were often deliberately exotic and primitif.-

Author: Charles Marie Rene LeConte De Lisle, Mr David R Slavitt
Publisher: New American Press
Publication Date: Mar 13, 2017
Number of Pages: 98 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 194156108X
ISBN-13: 9781941561089

The Jungle Poems Of Leconte De Lisle

$14.95
$12.60
Sale 16%
 
David R. Slavitt, award-winning author of more than 100 books of poetry and prose, translates the work of Charles Marie RenE Leconte de Lisle, a French poet associated with the Parnassian movement. -To look at Leconte de Lisle now, - writes Slavitt in the book's introduction, -is to discover a sensibility strikingly similar to that of Elizabeth Bishop (with Africa instead of Brazil as his mise en scEne). In some ways, he reminds me, too, of Wallace Stevens, stuck up in the fog of Hartford and longing for the glare of the tropics ('Home from Guatemala, back at the Waldorf'). He was an accomplished classicist who translated Homer's Iliad and the 'Eumenides' of Aschylus. But it is as a poet that he fascinates me, and particularly as one whose technical abilities are impressive and whose subjects were often deliberately exotic and primitif.-

Author: Charles Marie Rene LeConte De Lisle, Mr David R Slavitt
Publisher: New American Press
Publication Date: Mar 13, 2017
Number of Pages: 98 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 194156108X
ISBN-13: 9781941561089
 

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