弗朗西斯·雅姆诗16首
He was a mediocre student and failed his baccalaureate with a zero for French.[1]
Although not very successful at school he started writing poems early and his first poems began to be read in Parisian literary circles around 1895. Their fresh tone being much appreciated. Jammes mixed with other writers, including André Gide, Stéphane Mallarmé and Henri de Régnier. His best known volume was published in 1897 under the title “De l'Angélus de l'Aube à l'Angélus du Soir”. This was followed four years later (1901) by “Le Deuil des Primevères” was equally well received and enabled him to quit his job as a notary's clerk and support himself from his writings.
In 1905 Francis Jammes became affected by the poet Paul Claudel and returned to the Catholic religion from which he had lapsed in his youth. From this time on his poetry became more austere and sometimes dogmatic.
The Parisian literary circles considered Francis Jammes to be a provincial who chose to live a semi-monastic life in the mountainous Pyrenees and, for this reason, his poems never became truly fashionable and, despite regular applications he never became a member of the Académie Française.
Thirteen poems from his cycle Tristesses ("Sorrows"), were set to music by composer Lili Boulanger in 1914 under the title Clairières dans le Ciel which was the title Jammes had given to the larger collection of which Tristesses was a small part.
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