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POLONIUS, J. [LABENSKI, Xavier].
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180
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POLONIUS, J. [LABENSKI, Xavier].
See original version (French)
Estimate €80 - €100
Voluntary lot
Description
POLONIUS, J. [LABENSKI, Xavier]. Empédocles, poetic vision, followed by other poems. Paris, Aimé-André, 1829. Small in-12, (4)-241 pp, 3 pp catalogue. Contemporary polished fawn half-basane, spine with false nerves (some foxing). Rare. Only one entry in the CCFr (BnF). Jean Polonius is the pseudonym of Xavier Labenski, a Russian-Polish poet (1800-1855). He wrote verses in keepsakes from 1827 to 1829, with nothing to indicate that he was a foreigner (perfect prosody, topical subjects and pure language). His identity was not known until 1839, when a poem, Erostrate, was published, this time signed by a Polish nobleman, Count Ksaveri Ksaverievitch Labenski. His Poésies diverses, 1827, and our title are therefore published under Polonius. If his Erostrate reiterated the disgust of the century and the melancholic accents from which the generation of 1830 had distanced itself, his Vision d'Empédocle retained a greater originality. Charles Asselineau recognised his place between Auguste Barbier, whose emulator he was, and Lamartine, whose pupil he was, and Eugène Asse classified him among the lesser romantics (1900). ELEGIAC POETRY. ROMANTISM.
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