SULLY-PRUDHOMME Armand Prudhomme, dit (1839-1907) poète [AF - Lot 212

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SULLY-PRUDHOMME Armand Prudhomme, dit (1839-1907) poète [AF - Lot 212
SULLY-PRUDHOMME Armand Prudhomme, dit (1839-1907) poète [AF 1881, 24e f]. MANUSCRIT autograph signed "Sully Prudhomme", [March 25, 1884]; 5 pages and a quarter in-8. Speech at the banquet celebrating the election of François Coppée to the Académie française. [François COPPÉE had been elected on February 21, 1884; he will be received on December 18]. He will not make the public praise of the new academician: " I would like to point out in your work the qualities which belong only to you and of which we, your fellow-members in poetry, we can best know all the value, because only we feel them inimitable. I would have pleasure in studying by what prodigy you have been able to move the most rebellious to our art, to astonish the most skilful and to satisfy the most delicate, to characterize, for example, your rhymes at the same time so chosen and so little laborious, whose groups resemble those noble families which owe only to their blood their richness and their distinction. I would have pleasure especially to recall how, in the social melee where the Ideal needs so many defenders, you made yourself champion of the poetry on the most diverse grounds "... But the purpose of this banquet is rather to make feel to Coppée how much his fellow-members like him, and Sully-Prudhomme likes to see there the symbol of the concord which reigns between the poets: "One does not see them any more, as formerly, to address these cruel satires, these bloody epigrams where Boileau consoled himself by his malice of the moderation of his breath, where the tender Racine let pierce nails so sharp under the velvet of his verses"... The invective of the XVIIIth century, the affair of the classics and the romantics are part of the past: "the victorious genius whose paternal sceptre we still feel stretching out over us, only condemned the vanquished to perpetual emancipation. The quarrel ended in a marriage, because now the renewed imagination married the rejuvenated common sense. At these nuptials, the Parnassians themselves hold the stove: after having skilfully disciplined the form they understood that it is only beautiful by its transparency which gives desire to touch the bottom. The literary mores are thus softened for us and all the poets today are really fellow-members "... He salutes Coppée, artist and man of conciliation and grace, and he finishes by a tribute to LECONTE DE LISLE and BANVILLE, whom he wishes to see soon under the Dome, and to MIGNET, deceased the day before.... We join a SONNET a.s., To the future poets, July 18, 1872 (page of album in-8 cracked and repaired); and 3 L.A.S., 1881-1899: December 23, 1881, to a marquise after his election, July 24, 1898 to Charles de Freycinet and July 24, 1899 to a colleague, on his articles for the Revue Scientifique "on the final causes in science [] I do not desert poetry, but now nothing tires me more than versification", the preparation of his speech for the reception of Paul Deschanel, etc.
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