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Élégies majeures
Follow-up to Dialogue sur la poésie francophone
Léopold SÉDAR SENGHOR
Paris - Éditions du Seuil - 1979.
- Format : In-12.
- Number of volumes : 1 volume.
- Binding : Paperback.
- Collation : 123 pp.
Printed soft cover. Nice fresh paper. Cover and back a little faded.
"Relatively little has been written about the Elégies Majeures, Senghor's last published collection (1979). The poet was then 73 years old. This situation can be surprising in more ways than one. It is, along with Lettres d'hivernage (1972), one of the collections of mature age and wisdom acquired in the often harsh school of life. Nocturnal, on the other hand, dates back to 1962. It is also and above all a collection whose architecture or structure has been profoundly modified by the addition in 1990 of the "Elegy for Philippe-Maguilen Senghor", written in 1983 in memory of his son who died in 1981.
The 1979 collection contains six elegies: the "Elegy of the Trade Winds", the "Elegy for Jean-Marie", the "Elegy for Martin Luther King", the "Elegy of Carthage", the "Elegy for Georges Pompidou" and the "Elegy for the Queen of Sheba". In 1990, in his Oeuvre poétique, the collection includes seven elegies. In third place, between "Elegy for Jean-Marie" and "Elegy for Martin Luther King", the poet inserts a new poem, "Elegy for Philippe-Maguilen Senghor". The overall structure of the major Elegies is then profoundly modified and a new dynamic is breathed into the collection. The "Elegy for Martin Luther King" is found in the middle of the composition, preceded by three elegies and followed by three others. The architecture of the collection thus appears more symmetrical and harmonious around a central figure, that of Martin Luther King. However, the profound transformation does not lie in the arithmetic balance, but in the new arrangement of the large poetic images and in the reinforcement of meaning that is thus generated by the overall structure. New images and figures also appear that are part of Senghor's poetic universe. The figure of the poet also develops a dimension that is both religious and mystical. It is the large images and the figure of the poet in the Major Elegies that feed our reading here in two stages: first of all, to pose each of the elegies in its autonomy, then to bring to light what unites them in a unique and highly significant whole.
Copy enriched with a SIGNED SELF-SIGNED SENSE from the author.
In good condition.
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