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LAMARTINE Alphonse de (1790-1869)
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LAMARTINE Alphonse de (1790-1869)
L.A.S. "Lamartine", Aix les bains, July 17, 1830, to Victor HUGO| 4 pages in-4.
Very beautiful and long letter about their respective literary creations.
[Hugo sent Lamartine his poem entitled À M. de Lamartine, while Lamartine has just published his Harmonies poétiques et religieuses after his election to the Académie française on April 1 and the triumph of Hernani in February].
Hernani in February].
Lamartine is "delighted and grateful" of the verses of the dear Victor who "never wrote anything more magnificent than this immense comparison in two hundred and seventy verses! and I enjoy thinking that my name will be attached to this monument of your sublime imagination! His friendship avenges him and defends him from "these small hatreds which formerly fermented between rival talents. One did not know then enough what you and I know that the world of thought is even more infinite than the created world and that the conquetes of a Columbus do not take anything away from another, that there is on the contrary a sublime solidarity between all the elevated and creative spirits and that what raises the one also raises the other.
It is the principle of freedom applied to human intelligence! But as for this "conquered world" evoked by Hugo, he says he is still far from it: "I did not leave the bank yet and I approach forty years| I dreamed and I still dream my voyage". Moreover, he begs Victor not to hide him anything of the imperfections of his poetry, "provided that here and there you and some poetic and great souls sense what I would like to feel and say, it is enough. I am happy".
After a stay in Aix, he intends to go to Saint-Bernard, then to
Como and Lugano before going to Saint-Point. He hopes that Hugo will continue "to enrich us with the brothers of Hernani. If you create a theater you will have found this new world that everyone seeks". On his side, Lamartine is going to launch out "in the free and ethereal space of the Dantesque Poetry if God lends me life and force then I will say the nunc dimittis. I missed my relligious poems I know today how I should have written them, and how much I should write them"... He asks if Hugo would be reluctant to the publication of his poem, before concluding with these words: "Let us love each other and accompany each other with our wishes on a sea where you already exceed me by so much"...
L.A.S. "Lamartine", Aix les bains, July 17, 1830, to Victor HUGO| 4 pages in-4.
Very beautiful and long letter about their respective literary creations.
[Hugo sent Lamartine his poem entitled À M. de Lamartine, while Lamartine has just published his Harmonies poétiques et religieuses after his election to the Académie française on April 1 and the triumph of Hernani in February].
Hernani in February].
Lamartine is "delighted and grateful" of the verses of the dear Victor who "never wrote anything more magnificent than this immense comparison in two hundred and seventy verses! and I enjoy thinking that my name will be attached to this monument of your sublime imagination! His friendship avenges him and defends him from "these small hatreds which formerly fermented between rival talents. One did not know then enough what you and I know that the world of thought is even more infinite than the created world and that the conquetes of a Columbus do not take anything away from another, that there is on the contrary a sublime solidarity between all the elevated and creative spirits and that what raises the one also raises the other.
It is the principle of freedom applied to human intelligence! But as for this "conquered world" evoked by Hugo, he says he is still far from it: "I did not leave the bank yet and I approach forty years| I dreamed and I still dream my voyage". Moreover, he begs Victor not to hide him anything of the imperfections of his poetry, "provided that here and there you and some poetic and great souls sense what I would like to feel and say, it is enough. I am happy".
After a stay in Aix, he intends to go to Saint-Bernard, then to
Como and Lugano before going to Saint-Point. He hopes that Hugo will continue "to enrich us with the brothers of Hernani. If you create a theater you will have found this new world that everyone seeks". On his side, Lamartine is going to launch out "in the free and ethereal space of the Dantesque Poetry if God lends me life and force then I will say the nunc dimittis. I missed my relligious poems I know today how I should have written them, and how much I should write them"... He asks if Hugo would be reluctant to the publication of his poem, before concluding with these words: "Let us love each other and accompany each other with our wishes on a sea where you already exceed me by so much"...