Renee Vivien

Renee Vivien , born Pauline Mary Tarn the June 11th 1877 with London and dead the November 18th 1909 with Paris, called “Sapho 1900” was a poetess of the current parnassien of the Belle Time.

Renee Vivien was the girl of an American mother and a fortunate Scottish father who died in 1886, leaving him a heritage which put it at the shelter of the need. After its schooling, during which it is pointed out by its attachment for her friend of youth Violet Shillito, carried out with New York, Paris and London, it is established, starting from 1899, like écrivaine in Paris under the name of R. Vivien, Rene Vivien, then of Renee Vivien. She travelled however much throughout the world. She had a stormy relation with Natalie Barney, then with Helene de Zuylen with which she had, until 1907, a connection more stable than that which she maintained before with Natalie Barney, this relation brought to Renee Vivien a beneficial emotive balance to its literary creation, writing even four works in collaboration with her under the collective Pseudonyme of Paule Riversdale.

Its first collection of poems, Studies and preludes , appeared in 1901. Others will follow. Worms which point out those where Baudelaire and Verlaine had sung the loves lesbians - Renee Vivien however, had lived them. She died at the thirty-two years age (weakened, undoubtedly by an suicide attempt, and to be itself let die of hunger by sentimental despair.)

The complete work of Renee Vivien consists of:

12 collections of poetry, is more than five hundred poems,
2 works of translations of Greek poétesses,
7 volumes of prose,
1 novel,
of the news,
its correspondences with Natalie Clifford Barney and Kérimé Turkam Pasha.

Works

Studies and preludes (1901), collection of poems
Ashes and dust (1902), collection of poems
Fogs of Fjords , (1902), poetic prose, the critics greet it like the “large poet of the year”
Évocations (1903), collection of modern translations and of adaptations of the texts of the priestess Sappho,
Of the green to purple the (1903), poetic prose, first signature Renee Vivien
a woman appeared to me (1904), autobiographical novel
the Lady with the she-wolf (1904), new
Kitarèdes (1904), modern translations of eight Greek poétesses
Venus of the blind men (1904), collection of poems
a woman appeared to me (1905), new version of its autobiographical novel
Per hour of the united hands (1906), collection of poems
extinct Flambeaux (1907), collection of poems
Chansons for my shade (1907), poetic anthology
Several proses ironic and satirical (1907).
the Album of Sylvestre (1908), volume of aphorisms
Wakes (1908]), collection of poems and poetic prose
Anne Boleyn (1909), biography
Anthology of its prose poems after rehandling (1909)
In a corner of violets posthumous collection of poems
Wind of the vessels posthumous collection of poems
posthumous Haillons collection of poems

Renee Vivien also wrote more than ten works under the pseudonym of Paule Riversdale or in collaboration with Helene van Zuylen van Nyevelt.

External bonds

Site Renee Vivien
Choice of poems

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