SOURCE: "The Renascence of Catholic Lyricism," in The Constructive Quarterly, Vol. 2, June, 1914, pp. 384-402.

In the following essay, Vallery-Radot includes Jammes in a discussion of French-Catholic poetry.

While politicians are persisting in serving up to the masses, in the name of the laïc spirit and of Progress, the pernicious puerilities of the Encyclopédie now superannuated, while certain professors of the Sorbonne are madly bent upon ruining our worldwide reputation for straight thinking and clear speaking, while the fashionable stage and fashionable fiction are rehashing in senile fashion their tiresome physiologies, while the reviews are leading opinion astray upon fictitious glories, and the magazines are exalting stage-players, mountebanks, dancers and courtesans, it is good to turn aside for a moment from all this din and grimacing and, entering into the silence that is within, to give ear to the new and mysterious sounds which are awakening from...