L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune
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L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune (The Imitation of Our Lady the Moon) (1885) is a collection of poems by French
poet Jules Laforgue
. It is dedicated to Gustave Kahn
and "to the memory of little Salammbô
, priestess of Tanit
." It contains the following twenty-two poems:
and Graham Dunstan Martin, and in its entirety by Peter Dale.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
poet Jules Laforgue
Jules Laforgue
Jules Laforgue was an innovative Franco-Uruguayan poet, often referred to as a Symbolist poet. Critics and commentators have also pointed to Impressionism as a direct influence and his poetry has been called "part-symbolist, part-impressionist".-Life:...
. It is dedicated to Gustave Kahn
Gustave Kahn
Gustave Kahn was a French Symbolist poet and art critic.Kahn was born in Metz.He claimed to have invented the term vers libre, or free verse; he was in any case one of the first European exponents of the form. His principal publications include Les Palais nomades, 1887, Domaine de fée, 1895, and...
and "to the memory of little Salammbô
Salammbô
Salammbô may refer to:*Salammbô , the original novel by Gustave Flaubert*Salammbô , an unfinished opera, based on Flaubert's novel, on which Modest Mussorgsky worked between 1863 and 1866...
, priestess of Tanit
Tanit
Tanit was a Phoenician lunar goddess, worshipped as the patron goddess at Carthage. Tanit was worshiped in Punic contexts in the Western Mediterranean, from Malta to Gades into Hellenistic times. From the fifth century BCE onwards Tanit is associated with that of Baal Hammon...
." It contains the following twenty-two poems:
- "Un mot au Soleil pour commencer"
- "Litanies des premiers quartiers de la lune"
- "Au large"
- "Clair de lune"
- "Climat, faune et flore de la lune"
- "Guitare"
- "Pierrots"
- "Pierrots (On a des principes)"
- "Pierrots (Scène courte mais typique)"
- "Locutions des Pierrots"
- "Dialogue avant le lever de la lune"
- "Lunes en détresse"
- "Petits mystères"
- "Nuitamment"
- "États"
- "La lune est stérile"
- "Stérilités"
- "Les linges, le cygne"
- "Nobles et touchantes divagations sous la lune"
- "Jeux"
- "Litanies des derniers quartiers de la lune"
- "Avis, je vous prie"
English translations
Selections from L'Imitation have been translated by William Jay SmithWilliam Jay Smith
William Jay Smith is an American poet. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970.- Life :...
and Graham Dunstan Martin, and in its entirety by Peter Dale.