Berlin: The City And The Court; Author: Laforgue, Jules; Author: Translator Smith, William Jay; Paperback

Author: Laforgue, Jules; Author: Translator Smith, William Jay
Paperback; Illustrations
225 pages
Published: August 1996
Turtle Point
ISBN: 1885983026
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Jules Laforgue has been called the French Keats, but his circumstances were worlds removed from the English Romantic: in 1881, Laforgue went to Berlin to serve the Empress Augusta, reading to her twice a day from French books and newspapers. During his five years at the palace Laforgue produced much of the poetry that would greatly influence T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound; and in the yearbefore his death from tuberculosis at age 27, he completed BERLIN: THE CITY AND THE COURT. Here a cultural reporter, Laforgue shows what people wore, ate, did; what they saw and heard.