Neuvaine de sonnets : Bruxelles, Dimanche 18 février 94 /
Three young poets, aged 30, 29, and 23 1/2, gathered on Sunday, February 18, 1894 in Brussels and produced this "nonet" of fifteen (not nine) sonnets. Each man would write a line or two, then pass the manuscript to another, who'd write another line, and so on. This type of amusement,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | French |
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[Muizon, France] :
Editions "A l'Écart",
1983.
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| Summary: | Three young poets, aged 30, 29, and 23 1/2, gathered on Sunday, February 18, 1894 in Brussels and produced this "nonet" of fifteen (not nine) sonnets. Each man would write a line or two, then pass the manuscript to another, who'd write another line, and so on. This type of amusement, which they called "Inepties poëtiques," lent itself to burlesque and licentious themes. |
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| Item Description: | Poems written in three hands. Each collaboration is distinguished from the others by a different font: the writing of Pierre Louÿs is respresented in "romain gras" (bold Roman); that on Henri Regnier, in "romain demi-gras<" (regular Roman), and that of A.-F. Herold in italics. "Avertissement" signed: P. U. Dumont. Contains facsimiles of the title page and of the "Sonnet pour le Trésor poétique des jeunes filles," from the manuscript on which this edition is based. Limited edition of 130 exemplars: 100 non-commercial copies offered by the publisher to his loyal subscribers; 26 copies printed on vélin de Lana pur chiffon, the only ones put into commerce, numbered A à Z, and 4 copies reserved by the publisher, numbered I à IV. -- Translated from page [27]. Issued as loose folded leaves in a slipcase. First and final leaves blank. |
| Physical Description: | 30 unnumbered pages : facsimiles ; 30 cm |