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See also: Coldness cultivated as a kind of See also:artistic distinction seems to turn all his See also:poetry to See also:marble, in spite of the See also:fire at its See also:heart . Most of Leconte de Lisle's poems are little chill epics, in which legend is fossilized . They have the lofty monotony of a single conception of life and of the universe . He See also:sees the See also:world as what See also:Byron called it, " a glorious blunder," and desires only to stand a little apart from the throng, meditating scornfully . See also:Hope, with him, becomes no more than this desperate certainty: " Tu to tairas, o voix sinistre See also:des vivants ! His only See also:prayer is to See also:Death, " divine Death," that it may gather its See also:children to its See also:breast: " Affranchis-noun du temps, du nombre et de 1'espace, Et rends-nous le repos que la See also:vie a trouble!" The See also:interval which is his he accepts with something of the See also:defiance of his own See also:Cain, refusing to fill it with the triviality cf happiness, waiting even upon beauty with a certain inflexible austerity . He listens and watches, throughout the world, for echoes and glimpses of great tragic passions, languid with fire in the East, a tumultuous conflagration in the See also:middle ages, a sombre darkness in the heroic ages of the See also:North . The burning emptiness of the See also:desert attracts him, the inexplicable See also:melancholy of the See also:dogs that bark at the See also:moon; he would interpret the See also:jaguar's dreams, the See also:sleep of the See also:condor . He sees nature with the same wrathful impatience as See also:man, praising it for its destructive energies, its haste to crush out human life before the stars fall into See also:chaos, and the world with them, as one of the least of stars . He sings the " See also:Dies Irae " exultingly; only seeming to See also:desire an end of See also:God as well as of man, universal nothingness . He conceives that he does well to b& angry, and this anger is indeed the See also:personal See also:note of his See also:pessimism; but it leaves him somewhat apart from the philosophical poets, too fierce for See also:wisdom and not rapturous enough for poetry . (A .
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Calmette, Un Demi siecle litteraire, Leconte de Lisle et ses amis (1902) ; See also:Paul See also:Bourget,
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Brunetiere, L'See also:Evolution de la poesie lyrique en See also:France au XIX' siecle (1894); See also:Maurice Spronck, Les Artistes litteraires (1889) ; J
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LE COQ, See also:ROBERT (d
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1373), French See also:bishop, was born at See also:Montdidier, although he belonged to a See also:bourgeois See also:family of See also: Soon, however, the See also:credit of the estates having gone down, he withdrew to his See also:diocese, but at the See also:request of the bourgeois of Paris he speedily returned . The king of Navarre had succeeded in escaping from See also:prison and had entered Paris, where his party was in the ascendant; and Robert le Coq became the most powerful See also:person in his See also:council . No. one dared to contradict him, and he brought into it whom he pleased . He did not See also:scruple to reveal to the king of Navarre See also:secret deliberations, but his See also:fortune soon turned . He ran great danger at the estates of See also:Compiegne in May 1358, where his dismissal was demanded, and he had to flee to St See also:Denis, where Charles the Bad and See also:Etienne See also:Marcel came to find him . After the death of Marcel, he tried, unsuccessfully, to deliver Laon, his episcopal See also:town, to the king of Navarre, and he was excluded from the See also:amnesty promised in the treaty of See also:Calais (136o) by King John to the partisans of Charles the Bad . His temporalities had been seized, and he was obliged to flee from France . In 1363, thanks to the support of the king of Navarre, he was given the bishopric of See also:Calahorra in the See also:kingdom of See also:Aragon, which he administered until his death in 1373 . See L . C . Douet d'Arcq, " Acte d'See also:accusation contre Robert le Coq, eveque de Laon " in Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des Charles, 1st series, t. ii., PP._ 350-387; and R . Delachenal, " La Bibliotheque d'un avocat du XIV siecle, inventaire estimatif des livres de Robert le Coq," in Nouvelle revue historique de See also:droit frangais et etranger (1887), pp . 524-537 . |
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