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L'Imitation de Notre Dame la Lune

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Originally published
  
1886

Author
  
Jules Laforgue

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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 the 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:

  • "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 Smith and Graham Dunstan Martin, and in its entirety by Peter Dale.

    References

    L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune Wikipedia
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