Jules Laforgue Summary

The work of the French poet Jules Laforgue (1860-1887) is distinguished by its qualities of skepticism and irony and its development of the technique of free verse.Jules Laforgue was born on August 16... Read more

In the late nineteenth century, Laforgue was still largely unknown to English and American readers; in the essay excerpted below, Moore seeks to expand the poet's reputation by articulating his... Read more

In this excerpt, Gorren places Laforgue in the context of other poets associated with Symbolism, commenting on both his similarities with and his differences from them. . . . [Love] of the barest rhyt... Read more

In the following excerpt, Ramsey—a leading Laforgue scholar—explores how the different philosophers then popular with Paris intellectuals shaped Laforgue's poetry. In particular, ... Read more

In the following essay, Stormon charts the apparent echoes of Laforgue in Eliot's verse. The critic sees an affinity between the two poets based mainly on Laforgue's "reaching aft... Read more

In the essay excerpted below, King offers a detailed history and interpretation of the clown figure in French literature, concluding with a study of Laforgue's Pierrot, who is "both the ... Read more

Huneker was an American musician and critic who focused on discovering the best of European music and literature and introducing them to the American public. In the following excerpt, he records his i... Read more

In the following review, Sieburth comments on the influence of Laforgue's Moral Tales on English-speaking Modernist authors. Jules Laforgue's special allure for British and American mod... Read more

In the following excerpt, Holmes highlights affinities between the stories of Moral Tales and Laforgue's poetry. Laforgue's completion of five short stories, later to be published with o... Read more

In the following review, Baugh lauds Francis Newman's 1928 translation of Moral Tales and notes the "lunar mockery" suffusing Laforgue's tales. Ever since these prose tales... Read more

In addition to Laforgue, Ramsey has written about such French poets as Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Valéry, Leon-Paul Fargue, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Jules Supervielle. In the following e... Read more

Brooks is an American critic and educator. In the following excerpt, he argues that in the story "Hamlet" Laforque presents William Shakespeare's fictional character Hamlet as a D... Read more

An English-born Canadian educator, critic, and poet, Collie has published several books on Laforgue and produced a 1977 edition of Laforgue's verse collection Les complaintes. He has also publi... Read more

In the following essay, Turnell examines Laforgue poetic method, primarily through an analysis of his Dernier vers and a comparison of his poetry to that of Charles Baudelaire. Je songe à une ... Read more

In the following essay, King examines Laforgue's attempt to make a new language for poetic expression. Of the three principal poetic "movements" of nineteenth-century French liter... Read more

In the following excerpt, Howe undertakes a stylistic analysis of Laforgue 's poetry that focuses on its dramatic qualities. i) From unicity to multiplicity Quand j'organise une descent... Read more

In the following essay, Holmes investigates the interplay of style, theme, and poetic technique in Laforgue 's Les complaintes. the Idea of the Gi; the Idea of the complainte =~ Scomplainte &#x... Read more