Coll. Henry Davray Letter Signed Autograph Signed Stuart Merrill (Poet Writers)

Description: To follow in our ebay shop an important literary and private correspondence, from the old archives or personal collections of Henry D. DAVRAY...You will find, sold individually, many letters from Stuart MERRILL in particular, but also from other French or English-language writers of the time, publishers, directors of literary journals, &c...&c...Henry Davray From his real name Henry Durand, he is also known by the pen names of:Henry Durand-DavrayHenry D. DavrayHD DavrayHenry David Davray At the beginning of the 20th century, Henry Davray was an eminent popularizer of English-language literature by translating and promoting the works of Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, Frank Harris, HG Wells, Joseph Conrad and George Meredith. He created several reviews, the best known of which is the Anglo-French Review. After the First World War, his action in favor of the dissemination of English prose led him to become the most famous Frenchman in literary circles in Great Britain, where he settled in 1940 after being made Commander of the Order of the British Empire by King George VI.Henry-D. Davray was responsible from 1896 for the “English Letters” section of the Mercure de France. first translator of De Profondis and of The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde in 1898, he also translated into French a large part of the work of HG Wells from 1898 to 1912 (including the famous War of the Worlds) Henry DAVRAY 1873-1944 Literary critic, journalist, translator, writer Henry Durand-Davray, born August 14, 1873 in Gennevilliers, and died January 21, 1944 in London, is a French translator and literary critic. A specialist in English literature at the prestigious Parisian newspaper Mercure de France, he translates into French the works of HG Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde and Yeats. During the First World War, he was a war correspondent and official delegate of the French government. He is the brother-in-law of the painter Georges Dola.BiographyBorn of a Vosges father, Jean-Lucien-Henry Durand, gardener, and an Occitan mother, Mary Rivals, housekeeper then cook, from his youth he developed a deep aversion to Germany and an attraction to England where he spent most of his vacations. He began studying English at the Sorbonne, but was unable to obtain a degree there due to his prolonged absences. He nevertheless acquires a vast culture which allows him to fit in and evolve in artistic, political and literary circles in London as well as in Paris. He made the acquaintance of many writers, notably those belonging to the circle of HG Wells: Arnold Bennett and Joseph Conrad. In 1917, he was one of the founders of the Anglo-French Society (Anglo-French Society), the aim of which was to promote the Entente Cordiale: his friends affectionately nicknamed him “the Channel Tunnel”.When, after being released from prison in 1897, Oscar Wilde stayed for some time in Naples, Henry-D. Davray made his acquaintance, having obtained his address, the Villa Giudice at Pausilippe, thanks to Ernest Dowson, a close friend of the writer. The two men meet again by chance when, towards the end of his life, Oscar Wilde finds himself in need. Having had to cancel an appointment to receive it, Wilde asks Davray for money and offers him in exchange a signed copy of The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster. Stuart MERRILL1863-1915 symbolist and anarchist poet A poet of American nationality, Stuart Merrill spent his childhood in Paris, where his father belonged to the United States Embassy. At Lycée Condorcet, he was the classmate of some of the future symbolists, René Ghil, André Fontainas and Éphraïm Mikhaël among others. The French language seduces him and he acquires a very rich poetic culture. He returned to the United States to study law at Columbia College (1885-1889). There, he became the spokesperson for French poetry, in particular Parnassus, of which he was strongly influenced. At the same time, he learned the prosody of the English language. He published his first collection of verses, Les Gammes (1887), whenthe symbolist school is formed around Mallarmé. The reference to music is obvious and, like most other symbolists, he seeks to use words like notes on a staff, like elementary sounds that would be organized into a song. While others, Ghil for example, find new processes, such as verbal instrumentation, to achieve this musicality, Stuart Merrill borrows from Anglo-Saxon poetry the process of alliteration; he applies it systematically and fairly quickly shows the limits of such poetics. Fastes (1891), Petits Poèmes d'automne (1895) still bear the mark of this prosodic work; however, Stuart Merrill gradually frees himself from all influence: The Four Seasons (1900) is already a much more personal and original evocation. Permanently settled in France since 1890, Merrill wrote numerous articles on the symbolists on both sides of the Atlantic, and thus contributes to making them appreciated by the public. But, a great admirer of the American poet Walt Whitman, he comes to a much more didactic poetry. A voice in the crowd (1909) illustrates his love of humanity and his democratic ideal. Language puts itself at the service of his conviction and he gains a force foreign to his first verses.The symbolism manifesto, published by Jean Moréas on September 18, 1886, appeared while Stuart Merrill was staying in the United States, which he had returned to after the death of his father. It was from there that he corresponded with his French friends and sent his first poems for publication. "Passionate about social justice, involved in the Marxist movement, he was then seen in the streets of New York selling the sheets where the "four hundred" of high society were denounced..."Returning definitively to France, at the height of Symbolism, he published Les Fastes in 1891 and Les Petits Poèmes d'automne in 1895, opened a salon frequented by Symbolists at his home on the Quai de Bourbon in Paris, supported Oscar Wilde during his trial, and is enthusiastic about the Armenian cause and the defense of Captain Dreyfus. Collaborator of the magazines La Plume and L'Ermitage, he links his poetic writing to a commitment politics placed under the sign of anarchism: “What makes symbolist theory strong is precisely its anarchy. It asks the poet only to be significant, that is to say individual, and to reveal himself, thought and emotion, by images as general as possible. Yes symbolism is anarchism in literature; instead of cowering between two dates, like M. Zola, or stuffing himself alive in a box of mummies, like M. Leconte de Lisle, he wanders his glorious fantasy through lands and ages, and cares little that the riches he picks up come from Golconda or Ophir » (The Hermitage, August 1893, p.107)We therefore understand his attachment to liberated verse and free verse, freed from the constraints of metrics. However, beyond the structure, it is indeed the inspiration that is at the heart of his poetic approach: "The poet's talent alone justifies or condemns his metrics - Poesia, June 1906, p.50..» -(8)We sell herean autograph letter signed by Stuart MERRILLdated April 15, 1898Marlotte Text in French SM regrets that Henry Davray did not follow his invitation to Marlotte the day before, while he received the Obestfelder couple (the maddening Helga Obstfelder!) and Arnold Krog "My dear old Davray, I received your letter from Doullens, but you don't tell me if you received mine from last Thursday, where I invited you and Rambosson to spend Sunday (yesterday) at Marlotte. I had the Obstfelders and Krogs to dinner, and Mrs. Obstfelder had requested your presence so imperiously that to please her, I could not do anything other than beg you to come. Because what wouldn't we do for Mrs. Obstfelder, tell me, my old brother. I won't hide from you that we stand no luck, neither you, Don Juan with the beautiful curls, nor me, rotund rhymer next to that rascal Rambosson, whose sonorous name constantly flutters on the lips - Oh! how pretty! - from Mrs. Obstfelder. Ausso it is very unfortunate that my letter did not reach you. You should have received it, assuming that the maid didn't put it in the post until Friday morning, Saturday at the latest, when it was first delivered. Perhaps you were already in Doullens, in this rue Marjolaine where you pamper yourself your cozy person...I don't understand anything about the passage in your letter relating to the Curio, USA and to an opinion on Meredith that I expressed there. Ah! although I believe I have collaborated on it at the time. Phew! I'm dying of heat. Goodbye old chappy - Stuart."- This beautiful and amusing letter deserves some clarification...First of all it is shipped from Marlotte-Bourron, like many letters in this correspondence We must therefore evoke The phalanstery of artists by Armand Point“Haute-claire”, in Marlotte-BourronInspired by the elders, Armand Point established a colony of artists in Marlotte in 1896 (really active until around 1903), where painters, poets, sculptors, gilders, enamellers and goldsmiths mixed together, creating tapestries using rediscovered techniques. , jewelry and works of art. This intellectual circle called the Haute-Claire lodge became a mecca of symbolism For forty years, the Haute-Claire home was one of the highlights of Belle Époque art. The residence sheltered a magnificent ferment of cultures, at the crossroads of moral revolutions, social and aesthetic which turned our civilization upside down.Around this workshop, other literary and artistic circles were created for a day, for a year, clashed, disbanded, leaving behind a mystery, a melody, an essay, a work, sometimes an indelible memory.Several of these artists came to settle around the forest of Fontainebleau, either for their vacations or permanently, attracting their Parisian friends and their girlfriends, allowing couples to pair up, untie, and recompose themselves endlessly. in a cozy but joyful atmosphere. Armand Point, born in Algiers in 1860, died in Naples in 1932, was, during his African youth, a talented painter of orientalist inspiration, specializing in watercolor and genre painting, subsequently he became a remarkable enameler. In Paris, where he arrived in 1888, at the age of 28, Armand Point discovered a universe teeming with brilliant, often contradictory ideas, a world of strong personalities (or sometimes very dim for his taste) who were completely opposed, who passed their time virtually tearing each other apart in words and writings.The enthusiastic and curious JEUNE man was a student of Herst while attending the painters and poets of symbolist movement.In this turbulent era, Parnassus opposed the lyrical and sentimental excesses of romanticism embodied by Lamartine, Musset, Nerval, Hugo, by affirming that art does not have to be useful or virtuous but that its only goal is beauty. This Art for Art’s sake advocated by Théophile Gautier.The symbolist movement of which Moréas is the champion and Mallarmé will be the genius, appeared around 1870 after the fall of the Second Empire. Leagued both against Parnassus and against the Naturalism that Zola embodied, the symbolists invited painters and poets to detach themselves from the dictatorship of rational knowledge initiated by science, to find their inspiration in intuition, in the magic of dream and imagination. Around 1892, Armand Point moved to rue Delort in Marlotte, in this house, the Haute-Claire home, that he dreams of transforming into a phalanstery. Something between the abbey of Thélème and that of Port-Royal-des-Champs. He imagines an area where each artist will find their monastic cell, a library, study rooms, meeting rooms, spaces where they can paint and create in complete freedom, workshops for goldsmiths, sculptors, with a laboratory equipped with a furnace. ceramics, another for enamels, poetry and music salons...It was Elémir Bourges who named the Hauteclaire residence after Olivier's sword, friend of Roland, paladin killed at his side, at Roncesvalles. Haute-Claire was born, “this cloister whose cells would be workshops, whose bell would ring for hours and whose prayer would be the work.Until the war of 14, Haute-Claire attracted within its walls and under its groves personalities as diverse as Oscar Wilde, Stéphane Mallarmé, Odilon Redon, Stuart Merrill (who had the aim of setting up there as a printer), Paul Claudel, Jean Moréas, Camille Mauclair, Émile Verhaeren, Raoul Ponchon, Élémir Bourges, the entire Margueritte tribe &c...&c... Lou Andreas Salome and Camille Claudel also had the opportunity to visit there.A long-time friend of Armand Point, the banker, great patron and great Swedish collector Ernst Thiel, made Armand Point's work known and appreciated in Scandinavia, but also brought a whole colony of "Viking" artists to Marlotte, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, etc...It is therefore not surprising to find invited to Stuart Merrill's dinner the Obstfelder couple, as well as Arnold KrogArnold Krog1856-1931 Arnold Krog ( Mars 18, 1856 – June 7, 1931) was a Danish architect, painter and designer, Porcelain creator remembered for his achievements as artistic director of the Royal Copenhagen from 1884 to 1916. He revived the company after a period of decline, moving away from the rigid Empire style of previous decades in favor of a more impressionistic style that combined underglaze painting techniques with inspiration from Japanese imagery and naturalism European. He designed the Polar Bear Fountain for the Peace Palace in The Hague. He also designed furniture and silverware and took up landscape painting after his retirement from the porcelain factory in 1916. The Obstfelder CoupleSigbjørn Obstfelder, born November 21, 1866 in Stavanger and died July 29, 1900 (aged 33) in Copenhagen is a Norwegian writer.Best known as an author of poetry, notably for his first collection of poems from 1893, Digte, it is generally credited as one of the earliest examples of modernism in Norwegian literature. Despite producing only a handful of works during his short lifespan, he is considered one of the most important figures in Norwegian literature of the late 19th century.Heavily influenced by the French poet Charles Baudelaire, his writings have often been considered the literary equivalent of the paintings ofEdvard Munch; indeed, the two were friends. Obstfelder was a source of inspiration for the work of Rainer Maria Rilke The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.Although best known for his poems, Obstfelder also wrote and published prose. His first publications were two short stories in 1895. The following year, he published his novel Croix. In 1897 he published a play, The Red Drabe, which was entered into the National Theater in 1902.Several of his works were published posthumously, including the unfinished Diary Un Praest (1900). The diaries of his stay in the United States were also publishedHe is here with his beautiful Danish wife Helga Ingeborg Weeke, (Helga Obstfelder 1879-1930) a JEUNE woman of rare beauty, who will inspire painters and artists of the symbolist movement, we will have the opportunity to mention it again as we go along of the sale of these letters in our ebay store...In this letter we understand that it arouses great emotion in Stuart Merrill...-The Rambosson in question in the text East Ivanhoé Rambosson (1872-1943), son of Jean Rambosson (French scientist and writer, Philologist, Philosopher, Mathematician, Naturalist, Chief Editor from the newspaper: “Science for all”, 1827-1886)Poet and art critic, Ivanhoé Rambosson co-founded the Salon d'Automne with Frantz Jourdain in 1903 He was the husband of Renée Maubel 2 sheets of white paper, folded in the center forming 8pp.,6 handwritten pages(folded: about 17.8x11.3cm) Very good general condition, very clean, usual folds various or minor dirt see visuals... -[Provenance Henry D. Davray Collection]- Beautiful rare documentconcerning literary life and publishing at the end of the 19th century "My dear old Davray, I received your letter from Doullens, but you don't tell me if you received mine from last Thursday, where I invited you and Rambosson to spend Sunday (yesterday) at Marlotte. I had the Obstfelders and Krogs to dinner, and Mrs. Obstfelder had requested your presence so imperiously that to please her, I could not do anything other than beg you to come. Because what wouldn't we do for Mrs. Obstfelder, tell me, my old brother. I won't hide from you that we stand no luck, neither you, Don Juan with the beautiful curls, nor me, rotund rhymer next to that rascal Rambosson, whose sonorous name constantly flutters on the lips - Oh! how pretty! - from Mrs. Obstfelder. Ausso it is very unfortunate that my letter did not reach you. You should have received it, assuming that the

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