Full Description
First published in 1920, this volume contains a selection of meditations by the French poet Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869), chosen and edited by the Cambridge scholar Hugh Fraser Stewart. Each of the twenty poems is presented in the original French with source attribution given in the footnotes. A short introductory note in English provides a background to the poems and offers some thoughts by Dr Steward on Lamartine's standing as a poet and political figure.
Contents
1. Le Lace; 2. L'Immortalité; 3. L'isolement; 4. Le Soir, 5. Souvenir; 6. Le Vallon; 7. L;Automne; 8. Le Crucifix; 9. Les Étoiles; 10. Ischia; 11. Le Passé; 12. La Solitude; 13. Le Chêne; 14. Éternité de la nature, brièvetè de l'homme; 15. Milly ou la terre natale, 16. Le tombeau d'une mère; 17. Le premier regret; 18. L'occident; 19. Les laboureurs; 20. La cloche du village.
