Evidence: | 'With Mademoiselle Fleury that morning I had been struck by some lines in Ronsard's "Sonnets pour Helene", bittersweet, barbed, that drove home a feeling I had recognised and resisted long before, a sense of the intransigent flux of life, unappeasable in the midst of sweetness - intimations of mortality, of transient triumph. I tried out the thought on Bill:
"Quand vous serez bien vielle, au soir, a la chandelle,
Assise aupres du feu, devidant et filant,
Direz, chantant mes vers, en vous emerveillant,
Ronsard me celebrait du temps que j'etais belle".' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | From: 1 Oct 1939 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Oxford | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Ralph Glasser |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 3 Apr 1916 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | later economist |
Religion: | Jewish |
Country of origin: | England, of Lithuanian extraction |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Pierre Ronsard |
Title: | Sonnets pour Helene |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | reading group |
Record ID: | 20331 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Ralph Glasser | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Gorbals Boy at Oxford | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1988 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 71 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Ralph Glasser, Gorbals Boy at Oxford (London, 1988), p. 71, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20331, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
Sonnet II. |
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