The Stoics
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-09554-7 (ISBN)
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Siefert’s intellectual power and aesthetic originality are especially pronounced in her Les Stoïques, a volume that exemplifies her transdisciplinary mind and rich sonnet practice. The more than forty poems collected here are presented in the original French with masterful translations into English by Norman R. Shapiro, one of the most highly regarded English translators of French poetry. Shapiro’s inspired translations of Siefert’s texts give readers gain a sense of her prosodic mastery and flair as well as the way she uses poetry to think about the relation between mind and body. In her introduction, Adrianna M. Paliyenko reconstructs from original archival research the reception of Les Stoïques from May 1870 to the present, describing how many nineteenth-century readers considered Siefert’s philosophical verse to be central to her contribution to French poetic history and, in turn, how the gendering of poetic expression and the canon sidelined Siefert’s intellectual accomplishment.
A monumental achievement, this book brings the work of a major French poet to a broader audience. Siefert’s poetic primer on the Stoic way of thinking about why humans suffer or find serenity and joy, and other big questions of life, will strike a chord with modern readers.
Adrianna M. Paliyenko is Arnold Bernhard Professor in Arts and Humanities at Colby College. She is the author of Genius Envy: Women Shaping French Poetic History, 1801–1900 and the editor of volumes on nineteenth-century French women writers Madame A. Cashin, Anaïs Ségalas, Marie Krysinska, and Louisa Siefert.
A Note About the Translator
Acknowledgments
Reading Les Stoïques Anew
THE STOICS (1870)
Dédicace / Dedication
Le Départ / Leaving
Au large / At Sea
Soupir / Sighs
Immortalité / Immortality
Lune d’avril / April Moon
Jour tombant / Dying Day
Bonheur / Happiness
La Combe / The Valley
Automnales / Autumnalia
Soir d’hiver / Winter Eve
Les Vieilles Gens / The Old Folks
“Tous les rires d’enfant ont les mêmes dents blanches . . .” / “The same white gleam in all children’s laughter . . .”
“Il sera grand & fort, il est déjà si tendre . . .” / “Tall and strong will he be, so gentle too . . .”
“Pour ce petit enfant tant d’espoirs & d’alarmes . . .” / “For this babe, so much hope, so many fears . . .”
“Ce soir, quand la ville engourdie . . .” / “This evening, when the town, chilled numb . . .”
“Car, ô pauvres parents navrés . . .” / “For, O poor parents, when child dies . . .”
Au long des quais / Along the Embankments
Le Premier Froid / The First Chill
À ce qui n’est plus / For What Exists No More
“L’orage a passé; mais les flots sont durs . . .” / “The storm is past; still, the waves brutally . . .”
Sotto voce / Sotto voce
Chanson triste / Sad Song
“Et je pense à la mort, & toujours cette idée . . .” / “And so I think of death; ever that thought . . .”
Temps perdu / Time Lost
“La tristesse a vaincu, je souffre & je me tais . . .” / “Sadness has won, silent my suffering . . .”
Promenade d’automne / Autumn Stroll
“Jadis enfant joyeuse & folle . . .” / “A child was I, gay, undeterred . . .”
“Ô privilèges saints que Dieu m’accorde encor . . .” / “O sacred favors God yet grants to me . . .”
“Inutile! ce mot pèse sur bien des fronts . . .” / “‘Useless’? Word that weighs hard on many a brow . . .”
“L’amour! un mot encor, mais sublime & sauvage . . .” / “‘Love’! Simple word . . . One that—savage, sublime . . .”
“Un cimetière aux champs est chose rassurante . . .” / “A country graveyard comforting appears . . .”
“Je ne puis feuilleter mes livres, mon trésor . . .” / “Scarce can I leaf through treasured books, than there . . .”
“C’est vrai, j’ai peu d’égards aux vains regrets d’autrui . . .” / “True it is, I care little for the ills . . .”
Sur la première page de Joseph Delorme / On the Title Page of Joseph Delorme
La Divine Tragédie / The Divine Tragedy
Le Sacrifice d’Abraham / Abraham’s Sacrifice
“Le ciel est sombre, il pleut, &, la tête lassée . . .” / “The sky is dark with rain. My brow, distraught . . .”
La Pierre d’attente / Marianne’s Bust
“À l’honneur du combat qu’importe la victoire . . .” / “What matters victory to combat’s course . . .”
“Ô morts qui ressemblez à des apothéoses . . .” / “O you, apotheosis-like dead souls . . .”
“Quand Jésus s’en allait de bourgade en bourgade . . .” / “When Jesus went from town to town . . .”
Épilogue / Epilogue
Appendix: Selected Pages from Louisa Siefert’s Papers
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Poems
General Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.2.2025 |
|---|---|
| Co-Autor | Adrianna M. Paliyenko |
| Übersetzer | Norman R. Shapiro |
| Zusatzinfo | 22 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | University Park |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 373 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-271-09554-7 / 0271095547 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-271-09554-7 / 9780271095547 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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