Musset : Louis-Charles-Alfred de Musset (1810-57), one of the most distinguished poets & playwrights of the French Romantic movement.
... same figure coming to me and telling me, 'Beware'. I don't know who she is." So this is the story. I have brought these books because some of the poets have had such an experience. Alfred de Musset says that from his childhood he had a comrade who was always with him ― he was like a brother to him; he accompanied him in life's joys and sorrows, in dangers and happiness-he was always with him... read out some stanzas: Nuit de Dlcembre ¹ Du temps que j' é tais é Icolier, Je restais un soir à veiller ¹ Alfred de Musset: Po é sies Choisies, p. 38. Page 41 Dans notre salle solitaire. Devant ma table vine s' assenir Un pauvre enfant v ê tu de noir... being. But that being can only be perceived, seen and experienced and heard in solitude, in loneliness ― what you call calmness and quietness and detachment. This vision here, this being of Alfred de Musset says: "I can approach you but I cannot touch you; there is a separation between the two. We can touch only when there are some conditions fulfilled in the physical body." Another French poet speaks ...
... books because some of the poets have had such an experience. Alfred de Musset says that from his childhood he had a comrade who was always with him — he was like a brother to him, he accompanied him in life's joys and sorrows, in dangers and happiness — he was always with him. I shall read out some stanzas (Alfred de Musset — Poésies Choisies, page 38, Nuit de Décembre): 'Du temps... being. But that being can only be perceived, seen and experienced and heard in solitude, in loneliness — what you call calmness and quietness and detachment. This vision here, this being of Alfred de Musset says: "I can approach you but I cannot touch you, there is a separation between the two. We can touch only when there are some conditions fulfilled in the physical body." Another French poet speaks ...
... pens! Romanticism therefore is, to Hugo, really Truthfulness, "la verite". And yet, questions Lucas, what is grotesque in Wordsworth's Highland Maid or Keats's La Belle Dame Sans Merci or Musset' s Nuits or Yeats's Innisfree, poems which all critics have declared to breathe the utmost Romanticism? Or, still within the Hugoesque sphere, we may inquire in Lucas's own spirit, how the substance ...
... Chopin’s music; it makes me sick. His music is too vital." "What about George Sand, Mother?" "She is like that; she is well-known for such things. She had many lovers and left one for another. Musset, I think, fared at her hands in the same way. But," she added with a smile "she was not so bad as all that," (as was depicted in the film). "Who was the other musician?" Page 51 "Oh ...
... his mind was all afire! But that is now over. It was finished even before you were born, I believe. It was the romantic age, the end of the last century. Men like Musset, for instance—I don't know if you have ever seen a portrait of Musset, but indeed he had a sentimental and sickly look, and he added to it as much Page 3 as he could by his dress. It was thought that it gave him an artistic ...
... Spenser, Pope or Shelley as too cultivated and accomplished or too much under foreign influence or to seek for his models in popular songs or the products of the café chantant in preference to Hugo or Musset or Verlaine. Page 161 But perhaps something else is meant—is it that one gets the crude indispensable elements of metre better from primitive just shaped or unshaped stuff than from more ...
... fou! ... over Mount Falou Night hangs her sway - The wind that comes across the mountain will blow My wits away! (K.D.S.) It is the indefinite atmosphere of the scene in Musset, Ou la mer vient mourir sur une plage endormie. Where the sea comes to die on a shore asleep. (K.D.S.) Anything like this - and much more what English Romanticism gives us - is ...
... 307 Shelley as too cultivated and accomplished or too much under foreign influence or seek for his models in popular songs or the products of the cafe chantant in preference to Hugo or Musset or Verlaine. But perhaps something else is meant—is it that one gets the crude indispensable elements of metre better from primitive, just-shaped or unshaped stuff than from more perfect work in ...
... of herself was none else but herself, her real inner person. In this connection some of you will surely remember the famous poem – "Nuit de Décembre" – of the famous French poet Alfred de Musset where he speaks of a strange companion who used to visit him from time to time at critical moments of his life, come and sit by his side, – some unknown person dressed in black who however resembled ...
... 13, 35, 37, 39, 48, 60-5, 67-72 85, 87-9, 92-100, 102-3, 105-12, 149-50, 155, 168, 184-6, 190-1, 193-5. – Prayers & Meditations, 110 (Prières et Méditations) Musset, Alfred de, 41, 45 –Poésies Clwisies, Nuit de Decembre, 41n. NANDI, SUNIL KUMAR, 176 Nath, Rabindra, 179 Nath, Amba Nanda, 155 Nirodbaran ...
... moon within her circle bright, Like the dot on an ‘i’.* 16. La Nuit *C’etait dans la nuit brune, Sur le clocher jauni, La lune, Comme un point sur un i.* *08.09.1953 Alfred de Musset* 17. The Tower *If we climbed, up the tower One, two, three, If we climbed up the tower You and me. We would see our country, Four, five, six. Red roofs, walls all new and ...
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