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Lamartine

Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de . 1790--1869, French romantic poet, historian, and statesman: his works include M?ditations po?tiques (1820) and Histoire des Girondins (1847)
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In chapter 1, "The Traditions, the Innovations, and the Predicaments," Leikin examines three clues: the various preludes in opus 28 contain widely varying numbers of measures; Chopin performed them in groups; and Franz Liszt described them as '"poetic preludes similar to those of a great contemporary poet' clearly alluding to Alphonse de Lamartine's poem entitled Les Preludes" (p.
Ainsi, dans sa piece Toussaint Louverture (1839/1850), Alphonse de Lamartine met en scene l'effort de depassement de la condition d'esclave et la jouissance d'une liberte acquise de haute lutte en Haiti A travers le combat emancipateur du heros eponyme.
When referring to his first Meditations Poetiques (1820), Lamartine often portrayed his lyric voice as a free melody detached from consciousness: "Je veux me laisser aller ou me portera la fantasia" (Dec.
The new cell sites reportedly expand 3G data coverage along Columbus Avenue, Centre Street and Lamartine Street in Roxbury and Jamaica Plain, as well as surrounding areas.
But French poet and politician Alphonse de Lamartine wrote these words in 1831 to describe the emergence of the daily newspaper.
Warning: Do not trust fiction that offers "the temptation of the impossible." That was critic Alphonse de Lamartine's 1862 reaction to Victor Hugo's gargantuan novel Les Mis&233;rables.
Surveys describe Romanticism in Italy, Spain and Poland and authors serving as topics include Byron, Foscolo, Hugo, Lamartine, Lermontov, Leopardi, Mickiewicz, Musset, Nerval and Pushkin.
SophiArte's first film, To You, Being of the Future: Part L Leonardo da Vinci, Universal Genius, is about teenaged Michael, whose life is transformed by a book written by a French poet, Alphonse de Lamartine. He travels to France, where he discovers a manuscript in which Lamartine recounts the life of Leonardo da Vinci, which inspires him to go to Italy to discover this genius of the Renaissance.
Aurelie Loiseleur explores what she claims is an outmoded aspect of literary writing but one which was once of central importance, not least for Lamartine. That is the notion of 'harmonie'.
POLITICIANS in Lyon are in dispute over whether to name a new stadium after 19th century poet Alphonse de Lamartine or Lyon keeper GrAgory Coupet.
Andrews, takes up the question of Saul's portrayal in the Hebrew Bible and in two later works in the western world, Alphonse de Lamartine's drama Saul: Tragedie, and Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.
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