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Poet. Francis Jammes (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃sis ʒam]; 2 December 1868, in Tournay – 1 November 1938, in Hasparren) was a French and European poet. He spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his poems are known for their lyricism and for singing the pleasures of a humble country life (donkeys ...
Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. French writer Francis Jammes is best known for his poetry of the natural world, in which he praised the simplicity of country life. He was born in Tournay, France, at the foot of the Pyrénées mountains. When Jammes was seven, his father moved to Sauveterre-de-Guyenne to work as a tax ...
Quick Reference. (1868–1938). The poet of the south‐west of France, where he spent his life, Jammes celebrated the beauty and authenticity of the experience of nature. His first volume, De l'Angélus de ... From: Jammes, Francis in The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French ». Subjects: Literature.
Oct 7, 2024 · because I chat with it. This is the first verse of a poem called La Salle à Manger, by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938). The poet sees the pieces of antique furniture in his dining room as if they are loyal relatives who have been in the family for generations. Here, he talks about the cupboard and the voices and conversations it has heard.
Francis Jammes: Poet of the Pyrenees (from the introduction to Under the Azure: Poems of Francis Jammes) by JANINE CANAN 87 Sweetness by CHRISTOPHER HOWELL 97 Francis Jammes and Anglo-American Modernism by BENJAMIN JOHNSON 107 On the Contemporary Significance of Francis Jammes’ Landscapes
Francis Jammes was born on December 2, 1868, in the village of Tournay, nestled in the tallest mountains of Europe, the hundred-fifty-million-year-old Pyrenees that separate France from Spain with peaks eleven thousand feet high, named after the Goddess Pyrene (fire) who is said to have fled there after being raped by Heracles.
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1888 – Jammes very moved by his father’s death on the 3rd December. His mother moves to Orthez , home of the “ Huguenot” aunt Célanire, with her children Marguerite and Francis. 1889- 1897 – Jammes lives at his mother’s house, 8, rue St.- Pierre, a house on the banks of the Grec, whose “ crumbling tiles are as rusty as the keys of Heaven ”.
