Despair Has Wings
by Jouve, Pierre Jean; Scott, Roger; Gascoyne, DavidFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-11-01
Publisher(s): Enitharmon Press
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Summary
This collection includes all David Gascoyne's published and uncollected translations of poems by his mentor French writer Pierre Jean Jouve.
Author Biography
Pierre Jean Jouve (1887-1976) is regarded in France as one of the twentieth century's greatest poets. His work as a poet, novelist, critic and translator, influenced that of Pierre Emmanuel and Yves Bonnefoy in France, and David Gascoyne in England. In spiritual crisis in the 1920s Jouve disowned all his previous writing. Renewing his Catholic faith and pursuing his preoccupation with Freud (he married Blanche Reverchon, a psychoanalyst, in 1925) and the mystics, he entered his ‘vita nuova’. Noces (1928) and his translations (with Pierre Klossowski), Poèmes de la folie de Hölderlin (1930), preceded his most significant poetry collections: Sueur de sang (1935); Matière Céleste (1937); Kyrie (1938). During that period, he established his reputation as a novelist with Paulina 1880 (1925), Le Monde désert (1927) and Vagadu (1930).
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements & prefactory note | p. 11 |
| Introductory essay: Despair Has Wings: Gascoyne and Jouve | p. 13 |
| Notes | p. 45 |
| Gascoyne's translations of poems by Jouve | p. 73 |
| Published | |
| Gravida | p. 77 |
| From Sueur de sang | |
| 'I not in vain beheld that bitter sex' | p. 78 |
| 'The sky is intimately hid' | p. 78 |
| Pieta | p. 79 |
| Woman and Earth | p. 80 |
| The Moths | p. 81 |
| Brow | p. 82 |
| Nada | p. 83 |
| The Desires of the Flesh are a Desire for Death | p. 84 |
| A Lone Woman Asleep | p. 85 |
| In Helen's Land | p. 86 |
| 'Here the sky, the vast sky is full of gusts of wind and rock' | p. 87 |
| Transpierce Me Lord With My Own Grief | p. 88 |
| The Two Witnesses | p. 89 |
| From Nul N'en Etait Temoin: 'Austere nudity of the erotic Helen' | p. 90 |
| Insula Monti Majoris | p. 91 |
| Freedom or Death | p. 92 |
| The Resurrection of the Dead | p. 93 |
| When Glory's Spring Returns | p. 95 |
| Evening Prayer | p. 96 |
| 'Helen's sweet laughter pierces the panes' | p. 97 |
| To Himself | p. 98 |
| From Langue | |
| 'During the moulting season of the formless final world' | p. 99 |
| 'Ah! the poet writes only for the heavens' empty space' | p. 99 |
| 'Clear light of day! Flow once more through the furrow...' | p. 100 |
| Uncollected | |
| Despair Has Wings | p. 102 |
| 'Spittle on the asphalt' | p. 103 |
| Mozart | p. 104 |
| In the Common Grave | p. 106 |
| Viaticum | p. 107 |
| Don Juan | p. 108 |
| From Langue: 'At so many years' distance from the day of birth...' | p. 109 |
| Unpublished/Draft Translations | |
| Young Spirit | p. 112 |
| P | p. 113 |
| Landscape In Another Direction | p. 114 |
| Darkness | p. 115 |
| 'O joy of so many years!' | p. 116 |
| Interior Landscape | p. 117 |
| 'O terribly dark master of the deed/exploit' | p. 118 |
| 'A cup stands silent on the table' | p. 119 |
| 'Green is the waveswept plain' | p. 120 |
| 'Green waters! If the rocks tumble tragically down' | p. 121 |
| 'I sit aimlessly waiting in the ante-room' | p. 122 |
| Of a Town | p. 123 |
| Rabbouni | p. 124 |
| 'Solitude has its own strange way' | p. 125 |
| 'What does the dragon want? that I be fond of him' | p. 126 |
| Thoughts of the Reign | p. 127 |
| 'Beneath the great spread table' | p. 128 |
| 'Hear how on the wind that ruffles the striped fleece' | p. 129 |
| Guide | p. 130 |
| 'Time in which rare youth's high hills are fixed' | p. 131 |
| Gascoyne's translations of essays by Jouve and Groethuysen | |
| The Unconscious, Spirituality, Catastrophe (Jouve) | p. 134 |
| The Present Greatness of Mozart (Jouve) | p. 140 |
| Preface to Poemes de la folie de Holderlin (Groethuysen) | p. 149 |
| Appendix A | |
| 'The ascetic sensualist' | p. 158 |
| 'My Indebtedness to Jouve' | p. 162 |
| Drafts of 'Mozart: Sursum Corda' | p. 163 |
| 'Elegiac Stanzas In Memory of Alban Berg' (unpublished) | p. 168 |
| Strophes Elegiaques a la memoire d'Alban Berg | p. 175 |
| Two early Jouve translations by David Gascoyne | p. 179 |
| Draft of 'Post Mortem' (unpublished) | p. 182 |
| Two letters from David Gascoyne to Poetry (London) | p. 183 |
| 'Yes, You!' and Untitled (unpublished) | p. 184 |
| Two letters from Pierre Jean Jouve to David Gascoyne | p. 186 |
| Two letters from Blanche Reverchon-Jouve to David Gascoyne | p. 187 |
| 'A New Poem by Pierre Jean Jouve: "Language"' | p. 188 |
| Appendix B | |
| Facsimiles: letters, handwritten draft translations and copies | |
| Pieta: draft translation of poem by Jouve | p. 194 |
| 'Helen's sweet laughter': draft translation of poem by Jouve | p. 195 |
| To Himself: draft translation of poem by Jouve | p. 196 |
| P: draft translation of poem by Jouve | p. 197 |
| Tempo di Mozart: draft translation of poem by Jouve | p. 198 |
| 'Green is the windswept plain': draft translation of poem by Jouve | p. 200 |
| 'Green waters! If the rocks tumble...': draft translation of poem by Jouve | p. 201 |
| Rabbouni: draft translation of poem by Jouve | p. 202 |
| 'Solitude has its own strange way': draft translation of poem by Jouve | p. 204 |
| 'What does the dragon want?': draft translation of poem by Jouve | p. 205 |
| 'Beneath the great spread table...': draft translation of poem by Jouve | p. 206 |
| 'Hear how on the wind that ruffles...': draft translation of poem by Jouve | p. 207 |
| Dernier Signe a Salzbourg: handwritten copy of poem by Jouve | p. 208 |
| 'Untitled Mozart poem': draft translation of poem by Jouve | p. 209 |
| 'O joie de tant d'annees': handwritten copy of poem by Jouve | p. 210 |
| Sanctus a Salzbourg: handwritten copy of poem by Jouve | p. 210 |
| 'O joy of so many years': draft translation of poem by Jouve | p. 211 |
| 'O terribly dark master...': draft translation of poem by Jouve (fragment) | p. 211 |
| 'Jouve on [Alban] Berg': draft translation of essay by Jouve (fragment) | p. 212 |
| Gascoyne on the twelfth volume of Jouve's poetic works (fragment) | p. 213 |
| 'Pierre Jean Jouve. Those who today...': (prose fragment) | p. 214 |
| Letter from Gascoyne to Anthony Dickins at Poetry (London): 31 March 1939 | p. 215 |
| Letter from Gascoyne to Tambimuttu at Poetry (London): 8 May 1939 | p. 216 |
| Letter from Gascoyne to Tambimuttu at Poetry (London): 24 November 1940 | p. 217 |
| Letter from Tambimuttu at Poetry (London) to Gascoyne: 11 June 1945 | p. 219 |
| Letter from Pierre Jean Jouve to Gascoyne: 14 December 1956 | p. 220 |
| Letter from Pierre Jean Jouve to Gascoyne: 5 February 1957 | p. 221 |
| Letter from Blanche Reverchon Jouve to Gascoyne: no date (?1947) | p. 222 |
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