Category: Poetry
The present century has witnessed a remarkable literary phenomenon in the south of France, a remarkable rebirth of local patriotism. A language has been born again, so to speak, and once more, after a sleep of many hundred years, the sunny land that was the cradle of modern li...
The present century has witnessed a remarkable literary phenomenon in the south of France, a remarkable rebirth of local patriotism. A language has been born again, so to speak,...
2. Chapter 2The history of the Félibrige, from its beginning, in 1854, down to the year 1896, has been admirably written by G. Jourdanne.[2] The work is quite exhaustive, containing, in add...
3. Chapter 3The language of the Félibres is based upon the dialect spoken in the plain of Maillane, in and about the town of Saint-Rémy. This dialect is one of the numerous divisions of the...
4. Chapter 4The versification of the Félibres follows in the main the rules observed by the French poets. As in all the Romance languages the verse consists of a given number of syllables,...
5. Chapter 5Sant Jan, vèngue meissoun, abro si fiò de joio; Amount sus l'aigo-vers lou pastre pensatiéu, En l'ounour dóu païs, enausso uno mount-joio E marco li pasquié mounte a passa l'est...
6. Chapter 6The publication of this poem in 1859 is an event of capital importance in the history of modern Provençal literature. Recognized immediately as a master-work, it fired the ambit...
7. Chapter 7The lover of poetry will probably find more to admire and cherish in this volume than in any other that has come from the pen of its author, excepting, possibly, the best passag...
8. Chapter 8The peculiar qualities and limitations of Mistral are possibly nowhere better evidenced than in this play. Full of charming passages, frequently eloquent, here and there very po...
9. Chapter 9Aasen, Ivan, 94. Alexandrine verse, 78, 89. Alpilles, 11. Amiradou, 76, 196. Arène, Paul, 21, 234. Ariosto, 20, 151. Armana prouvençau, 17, 28. Aubanel, Théodore, 15, 17, 21, 36...