Meditations

First published in 1920, this volume contains a selection of meditations by the French poet Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869).

A. De Lamartine (Author)

9780521109093, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 18 June 2009

96 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 0.6 cm, 0.11 kg

First published in 1920, this volume contains a selection of meditations by the French poet Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869), chosen and edited by the Cambridge scholar Hugh Fraser Stewart. Each of the twenty poems is presented in the original French with source attribution given in the footnotes. A short introductory note in English provides a background to the poems and offers some thoughts by Dr Steward on Lamartine's standing as a poet and political figure.

1. Le Lace
2. L'Immortalité
3. L'isolement
4. Le Soir, 5. Souvenir
6. Le Vallon
7. L
Automne
8. Le Crucifix
9. Les Étoiles
10. Ischia
11. Le Passé
12. La Solitude
13. Le Chêne
14. Éternité de la nature, brièvetè de l'homme
15. Milly ou la terre natale, 16. Le tombeau d'une mère
17. Le premier regret
18. L'occident
19. Les laboureurs
20. La cloche du village.

Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]