Constantin Balmont

Constantin Dmitrievich Balmont (in) June 4th, 1867 - December 23rd, 1942 is a Russian poet Symbolist beginning of. One also owes him of the translations.

After having initially greeted the revolution Bolshevik of November (in October in the Calendar Julien) 1917, he especially repudiates it and lives in France, where he dies poor and forgotten. Although its first towards are revolutionists in their contents, after the revelation in 1894 of the influence of the Symbolists.

Its voyages through the whole world provide him exotic details for its poems. It translated Percy Bysshe Shelley, Henrik Ibsen, Edgar Allan Poe, Pedro Calderón of Barca and Walt Whitman.

Its principal work is Under the skies of North (1894). Let be to us like the Sun (1903) and solitary Amour (1903) are typical of its mélodieux and inventive worms. Its worms written after 1910 are regarded as poor.

Works translated into French

Some poems . Paris, Georges Crès, 1916.
solar Visions . Mexico. Egypt. India. Japan. Oceania. Translated from Russian with a foreword by Ludmila Savitzky. Gallimard, 1922.
" Images of Woman in Poetry and Vie" , Mercure de France , n° 622, May 15th, 1924.

External bonds

Worms of Constantin Balmont in English

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