Florilège pour Albert Samain : Commemoration du poète a Lille le 4 octobre, avec les discours prononcés à l'inauguration .,.

Kah, Philippe [ Samain, Albert (1858-1900) ]

Published by Les Amis de Lille, Lille, 1931

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21x13cm, 265,(8) pp. Full title reads: "Florilège pour Albert Samain : Commemoration du poète a Lille le 4 octobre, avec les discours prononcés à l'inauguration du Monument et Hommages de Germaine Acremant ., [et al.]". ["Albert Victor Samain .,.was a French poet and writer of the Symbolist school. Born in Lille, his family were Flemish and had long lived in the town or its suburbs. At the time of the poet's birth, his father, Jean-Baptiste Samain,and his mother, Elisa-Henriette Mouquet, conducted a business in "wines and spirits" at 75 rue de Paris. Samain's father died when he was quite young; it was necessary for him to leave school and seek a trade. He moved to Paris in around 1880, where his poetry won him a following and he began mixing with avant-garde literary society, and began publicly reciting his poems at Le Chat Noir. His poems were strongly influenced by those of Baudelaire, and began to strike a somewhat morbid and elegiac tone. He also was influenced by Verlaine; his works disclose a taste for indecisive,vague imagery. Samain helped found the Mercure de France, and also worked on the Revue des Deux Mondes. Samain published three volumes of verse: Le jardin de l'infante (1893), which made him famous; Aux flancs du vase (1898) and Le Chariot d'or (1901). His poetic drama Polyphème was set to music by Jean Cras. Samain died of tuberculosis. Camille Saint-Saëns set poems of Samain to music: "Six Mélodies sur des poésies d'Albert Samain" op.31 (1902-1906; orchestrated 1921)" - wikipedia]. Rubbed. Pages browned. A top-edge bump. Some spine stains. Good. Seller Inventory # 025504

Bibliographic Details

Title: Florilège pour Albert Samain : Commemoration...

Publisher: Les Amis de Lille, Lille

Publication Date: 1931

Binding: orig.wrappers

Illustrator: Frontis.,8pp photoplates.