Francis James

See also: James

Francis James is a Poète French born with Tournay (Hautes-Pyrénées) the December 2nd 1868 and died with Hasparren (today Yrénées-Atlantiques) on November 1st 1938. It passed the major part of its existence in (Béarn and Basque Country), sources of inspiration of its literature.

It makes its studies with the college of Pau, then in Bordeaux. In 1886, he discovers Baudelaire; confronted with the failure after having failed the vat, and in full search with itself, he writes in all 89 poems. In 1889 it becomes acknowledged in a notary with Orthez. It finds however time to send to the press arts persons its poetic tests, noticed by Mallarmé and Gide. In 1895 it is directed definitively towards the life poetry. From now on celebrates, it creates Jammisme. From 1898 to 1900, he writes angelus of the paddle to the angelus of the evening, then the Mourning of the Primulas and binds in 1901 with Claudel. At 35 years, he saw a sad history of love which gives rise to the admirable collection: Clearing in the Sky. In 1907, at 39 years, he marries Genevieve Goedorp, an enthusiastic admiror, who gives him six children. In 1912 appear Géorgiques Christian women. In 1928, it meets Paul Valéry. He dies in Hasparren at All Saints' day 1938.

Life and work

Its first poetic compositions are known Parisian literary circles about 1895. This poetry full with freshness starts a poetic revival, putting fine at a certain preciosity Symbolist. It binds in particular with André Gide, with which it remains in Algérie in 1896, Mallarmé, Henri de Régnier. Later it will bind with Paul Claudel.

Its more famous collection, Of the angelus of the paddle to the angelus of the evening , appears in 1897 with the Mercure de France. the Mourning of the Primulas (1901) is another interesting collection. Clerk of notary at his beginnings it can from now on live literature.

1905 see its conversion with Catholicism. It turns then to more rigor, and its poetry becomes more nun and dogmatic.

In comparison with the Parisian coteries, Francis James always remained provincial a little solitary, alive withdrawn in its Pyrenean mountains. It posed several times its candidature for the French Academy which never accepted it in its center. If its worms took, with time, a small out of date air, James, who was never with the mode in his time is not by no means an obsolete poet and its worms are always pleasant to read.

It is known today like the author of the Prayer , put in music by Georges Brassens. It is about an extract of a poem of the collection the church equipped with sheets (1906). The original title is the painful mysteries . Brassens removed certain passages of them in order to make the text percussion.

The poem I love the ass is also famous:

I love the ass so soft

walking along the houx.
It takes guard with the bees
and moves its ears;
and it carries the poor
and of the bags filled with barley.
It goes, close to the ditches,
of a small broken step.
My friend believes it stupid
because he is poet.
It always reflects.
Its eyes are out of velvet.
Young girl in the soft heart,
you do not have his softness

One notices in this extract the preferred topics of the poet (young girls, asses, humility…) and of the characteristics of its Prosody: Assonance S ( poor / barley ), freedom with the traditional rules of the Versification ( My ami' e' believes it stupid ).

Selective bibliography

Works

  • Six Sonnets , 1891, Orthez, Typography J. Goude, Dumesnil
  • Seven poems , 1892, Orthez, Typography J. Goude, Dumesnil
  • Twenty and one poems , 1893, Orthez, Typography J. Goude, Dumesnil
  • Towards , 1894, Paris, Ollendorff, Contains fifteen new poems and poems contained in the three preceding plates
  • One day, 1895, Paris, Mercure de France, Contient a dialogued poem and fifteen poems new
  • birth of the Poet , 1897, Brussels, the Red Cock
  • Of the Angelus of the paddle to the Angelus of the evening , 1888-1898, (Towards, birth of the Poet, One day, the death of the Poet), 1898, Paris, Mercure de France
  • Fourteen prayers , 1898, Orthez, Printing works Faget
  • Clara d' Ellebeuse or history of a former young girl followed Things and Contes , 1899, Paris, Mercure de France, In-16, Br.
  • the naked young girl , 1899, Paris, the Hermitage
  • the Poet and the bird , Poetry, 1900, Paris, the Hermitage
  • the mourning of the primulas , 1898-1900
(Elegies, the naked young girl, the Poet and the bird, Fourteen prayers) Poetry 1901, Paris, Mercure de France
  • Almaïde d' Etremont or history of an impassioned young girl
followed Notes, Two proses, On J. - J. Rousseau and Madam de Warens in Charmettes and to Chambéry News, proses and poetry 1901, Paris, Mercure de France, In-16, Br., 207 p.
  • triumph of the life , 1900-1901
(Jean de Noar-Rieu, Existences) Poetry 1902, Paris, Mercure de France
  • the novel of the hare
follow-up of Clara d' Ellebeuse, Almaïde d' Etremont, Of the things, Tales, Notes over oases and Algiers, August fifteen with Laruns… Novel, news, proses and poetry 1903, Paris, Mercure de France, In-12, cart., 366 p.
  • Sadnesses
Poetry 1905, Orthez, Printing works Faget
  • Thought of the gardens
followed Few asses Proses and poetry 1906, Paris, Mercure de France
  • the church equipped with sheets
Poetry 1906, Paris, Mercure de France
  • As a God
Poetry 1906, Paris?
  • Clearings in the sky , 1902-1906
(As a god, Sadnesses, the Poet and its wife) follow-up of the church equipped with sheets Poetry 1906, Paris, Mercure de France
  • measured Poems
Twenty and one poems Poetry 1908, Paris, Mercure de France
  • Honeycombs
Poetry 1908, Paris, Library of the Occident
  • My daughter Bernadette
Prose 1910, Paris, Mercure de France, In-12, Br
  • Géorgiques Christian women
songs I and II 1911, Paris, Mercure de France
  • Géorgiques Christian women
songs III and IV 1911, Paris, Mercure de France
  • Géorgiques Christian women
songs V, VI and VII 1912, Paris, Mercure de France
  • Sheets in the wind
(Meditations, the inn of the pains, the inn on the road, the inn of the poets, Opening of spring, Some men, Apple of Anise, the lost sheep…) Proses and poetry 1913, Paris, Mercure de France
  • Five prayers for the time of the war
1916, Paris, Catholic Art bookstore
  • rosary with the sun
1916, Paris, Mercure de France, In-8, Br., 242 p.
  • Mister the priest of Ozeron
1918, Paris, Mercure de France, In-12, Br., 283 p.
  • the virgin and the sonnets
(Sonnets to start, the canticle of Doors, the canticle of NR. - D. of Sarrance, Sonnets to finish) Poetry 1919, Paris, Mercure de France, In-12, Br., 202 p.
  • the pink with Marie
1919, Paris, Edouard Joseph, In-12 square, Br., 45 p. Edition containing of wood engraved of Andre Deslignières
  • '' a virgin ''
1919, Paris, Edouard Joseph, In-12, Br., 30 p., wood drawn by Gayac.
  • Christmas of my children
Prose 1919, Paris, Edouard Joseph, In-16, Br., 29 p. Edition containing of wood engraved of A. Roubille
  • the rustic Poet
follow-up of the almanac of the rustic Poet Autobiography and prose 1920, Paris, Mercure de France, In-12, Br., 291 p.
  • Epitaphs
Poetry 1921, Paris, Catholic Art bookstore
  • the Good god in the children
Proses 1921, Paris,
  • the book of Saint Joseph
Plon-Nourishes Prose 1921, Paris, Plon-Nourishes, In-12, Br., 275 p.
  • Of the divine age at the awkward age
The first volume of the memories Memories 1921, Paris, Plon-Nourishes, In-12, Br., 249 p.
  • the tomb of Jean of the Fountain
follow-up of measured Poems Poetry 1921, Paris, Mercure de France, In-8, Br., 236 p.
  • love, Muses and hunting
The second volume of the memories Memories 1922, Paris, Plon-Nourishes, In-12, Br., 226 p.
  • the poet and the inspiration
Prose 1922, Nimes, A. Gomès, the hard one, Br., 63 p. Edition containing of the etchings and engravings of Armand Coussens
  • the first book of the quatrains
Poetry 1923, Paris, Mercure de France, In-8, Br., 86 p.
  • the second book of the quatrains
Poetry 1923, Paris, Mercure de France, In-8, Br.
  • whims of the Poet
The third volume of the memories. Memories 1923, Paris, Plon-Nourishes, In-12, Br., 212 p.
  • Cloches for two marriages
(The Basque marriage, the marriage of convenience) News 1923, Paris, Mercure de France, In-12, Br. 248 p.
  • the third book of the quatrains
Poetry 1924, Paris, Mercure de France, In-12, Br., 75 p.
  • Brushwood to relight the faith
Prose 1925, Paris, Spes
  • the fourth book of the quatrains
Poetry 1925, Paris, Mercure de France, In-12, Br., 75 p.
  • Robinsons Basques
Novel 1925, Paris, Mercure de France, In-8, Br., 209 p.
  • My poetic France (Ground-Water-Air)
Poetry 1926, Paris, Mercure de France, In-8
  • Thirty-six women
Proses 1926, Paris, Mercure de France, In-8, 248 p.
  • the Low-Pyrenees, natural histories and poetic
Proses 1926, Paris, Emile-Paul
  • Lavigerie
Biography 1927, Paris, Flammarion, coll " Large the coeurs" , In-12, Br., 201 p.
  • the dream franciscain
Follow-up of the Small flowers of Saint-François d' Assise Proses 1927, Paris, Crès
  • Diane
Poetry, drama in three acts 1928, Paris, the Hermitage
  • the divine pain
Proses 1928, Paris, Bloud and Gay, In-12, Br., 240 p.
  • Janot poet
Novel 1928, Paris, Mercure de France, In-12, Br.
  • the nights which sing me
Proses 1928, Paris, Flammarion
  • Islands
Proses 1928, Lausanne, Mermod
  • life of Guy de Fontgalland
Biography 1929, Paris-Lyon, Hurdy-gurdy
  • Champêtreries and meditations
Proses 1930, Paris, Horizons of poetic France
  • Lessons
Criticisms 1930, Paris, Mercure de France
  • the rainbow of the loves
Proses 1931, Paris, Bloud and Gay, " Ars and Fides" , In-12, Br., 190 p.
  • the school buissonnière or free Course of selected proses
proses 1931, Paris, Mercure de France, Selection of already published proses
  • Antigyde or Elie de Nacre
Novel 1932, Paris, Mercure de France
  • Pipe Dog
follow-up of the dream franciscain, Islands Novel and proses 1933
  • the pharmacy of the good Samaritan
Proses 1934, Paris, representative Works, In-12, Br.
  • the crucifix of the poet
Proses 1935, Paris, Maurice d' Hartoy, In-12 square, Br., 166 p.
  • Lark
Poetry 1935, Paris, Gallimard.
  • From time immemorial forever
Poetry 1935, Paris, Gallimard, N.R.F., In-12, Br.
  • God, the heart and the feeling
Proses 1936, Paris, Gallimard Selection of already published proses
  • the pilgrim of Doors
Prose 1936, Paris, Gallimard
  • Sources
Poetry 1936, Paris, the Couch
  • the legend of the wing or Marie-Elisabeth
Novel 1938, Uzès, the Cicada
  • Dialog Stephan Mallarmé - Francis James
Correspondences 1940, $the Hague, Stols Introduction and notes of G. Jean-Aubry
  • Saint Louis
Historical account 1941, Paris, Sorlot, In-12 Square, Br., 159 p. edition illustrated of drawings in black and white of Edmond Ernest
  • Variations in a French air
Proses 1942, Paris, Mercure de France
  • Two women (Mamore, Simone)
Proses 1943, Paris, Daragnès
  • Recall of the town of Bordeaux
Prose 1943, Bordeaux, Rousseaux brothers
  • Sources and fires
Poetry 1944, Paris, Mercure de France
  • an unexpected friendship
(Colette and Francis James) Correspondences 1945, Paris, Emile Paul Introduction and notes of Robert Mallet
  • populated Loneliness
Proses 1945, Freiburg, Egloff, In-8, Br., 254 p.
  • a lyric friendship
(Albert Samain and Francis James) Correspondences 1946, Paris, Emile Paul, In-12, Br., Introduction and notes of Jules Mouquet
  • Take our old memories
Poetry 1948, Paris, Gold the Anchor
  • Correspondence of Francis James with Andre Gide
Correspondences 1948, Paris, Gallimard, Introduction and notes of Robert Mallet
  • the patriarch and his herd
The fourth volume of the memories follow-up of the AIRS OF the MONTH Memories and proses 1949, Paris, Mercure de France
  • the poem of irony and love
Poetry 1950, Paris, the universal Bookstore

External bonds

  • Official site

  • Francis James with the '' Club of the Poets ''
  • Choice of poems
  • article documented on the " jammisme" by Francesco Viriat
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