Mirèio, a Provençal Poem. Frédéric Mistral

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       Frédéric Mistral

      Mirèio, a Provençal Poem

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664573490

Table of Contents

       Preface to the English Edition.

       CANTO I. Lotus Farm.

       I.

       II.

       III.

       IV.

       V.

       VI.

       VII.

       VIII.

       IX.

       X.

       XI.

       XII.

       XIII.

       CANTO II. The Leaf-picking.

       CANTO III. The Cocooning.

       I.

       II.

       III.

       IV.

       V.

       VI.

       VII.

       VIII.

       IX.

       X.

       XI.

       XII.

       XIII.

       XIV.

       XV.

       XVI.

       XVII.

       XVIII.

       XIX.

       XX.

       XXI.

       XXII.

       XXIII.

       XXIV.

       CANTO IV. The Suitors.

       CANTO V. The Battle.

       CANTO VI. The Witch.

       CANTO VII. The Old Men.

       CANTO VIII. La Crau.

       CANTO IX. The Muster.

       CANTO X. Camargue.

       CANTO XI. The Saints.

       CANTO XII. Death.

Preface to the English Edition.

       Table of Contents

      THIRTY odd years have come and gone since the curious litterateurs of Paris were excited and charmed by the apparition of Frédéric Mistral’s “Mirèio.” A pastoral poem in twelve cantos, composed in the dialect of the Bouches du Rhône, and first issued by an obscure bookseller at Avignon, it was produced before the great literary world with a parallel French version of the author’s own, very singular and rather sauvage as French, but exceedingly bold, picturesque, and poetic, and the poem had the further advantage of a most eloquent and sympathetic introduction in the Revue des Deux Mondes, of September 15, 1859, by Saint-René Taillandier.

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