Sagesse (English spelling)

…In 1870, he married Mathilde Mautet, who was sung in “Les Odes” (Les Odes), but this lull was quickly broken the following year by the appearance of Rimbaud, and this encounter, which ended in an unfortunate assault, caused him to lose everything except his status as a poet. His two most accomplished collections of poems, “Romances sans paroles” (1874) and “Sagesse” (1881), were established on this great sacrifice. The former is a development of the first and second collections that surpasses sensuality, while the latter is a work that is a more religiously purified version of his earlier “Les Odes” after his imprisonment, divorce, and conversion. With the rise of the decadent movement in the mid-1880s, he was elevated to the status of a master of the movement, but the collections of poems published under this public reputation, starting with “Antiquities and Recent Times” (1885), cannot be said to have added any new brilliance to his true literary glory, despite their enormous volume, except for the famous “Poetics” and several other excellent works. …

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…1870年《よき歌》に歌われたマチルド･モーテと結婚するが，この小康状態も翌年ランボーの出現でたちまち破られて，不幸な傷害事件に終わったこの出会いによって彼は詩人たること以外のすべてを失う。彼の最も完成された2詩集《言葉なき恋歌Romances sans paroles》(1874)，《叡智Sagesse》(1881)はこの大きな犠牲の上に樹立されたもので，前者は官能に勝る第1･第2詩集の発展であり，後者は，獄中生活，離婚，回心を経てかつての《よき歌》のさらに宗教的に純化された作品である。80年代半ばデカダン派の台頭とともに彼はその巨匠に祭り上げられるが，この世間的名声の下に刊行された《昔と近頃》(1885)以降の諸詩集は，有名な《詩法》その他いくつかの佳編を除けば，その膨大な量にもかかわらず彼の真の文学的栄光に新たな光輝を加えたとはとうていいえない。…

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