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A lai (or lay lyrique, "lyric lay", to distinguish it from a lai breton) is a lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance. Lais were mainly composed in France and Germany, during the 13th and 14th centuries. The English term lay is a 13th-century loan from Old French lai.
Epic poems in French (1 C, 26 P) H. Poetry by Michel Houellebecq (2 P) French humorous poems (1 C, 1 P) M. Poetry by Stéphane Mallarm ...
The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1] The first known book containing a collection of these texts was Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, which was published by Mary Cooper in 1744 ...
Guigemar" is a Breton lai, a type of narrative poem, written by Marie de France during the 12th century. The poem belongs to the collection known as The Lais of Marie de France . Like the other lais in the collection, Guigemar is written in the Anglo-Norman language , a dialect of Old French , in rhyming octosyllabic couplets.
Originally published in 1852 with 18 poems, Émaux et camées, the final edition (1872) contains 48 poems. Whereas Gautier's earlier work was more concerned with romantic aestheticism , the formalism of this last collection is a point of reference for the arrival of Parnassianism .
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (French: L'Apprenti sorcier) is a symphonic poem by the French composer Paul Dukas, completed in 1897. Subtitled " Scherzo after a ballad by Goethe", the piece was based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 's 1797 poem named "Der Zauberlehrling" .
"Beau soir" ("Beautiful Evening") is set to a poem by Paul Bourget. The poem paints the picture of a beautiful evening where the rivers are turned rose-colored by the sunset and the wheat fields are moved by a warm breeze. Debussy uses a gently flowing triplet rhythm in the accompaniment, which contrasts the duplets that drive the light melody ...
Romanticism (Romantisme in French) was a literary and artistic movement that appeared in France in the late 18th century, largely in reaction against the formality and strict rules of the official style of neo-classicism.