José-Maria de HEREDIA - Signed autograph poem - Artémis.

José-Maria de HEREDIA (1842-1905)

Autograph poem signed – Artemis.

A page in-4° in black ink.

Slnd.

Very beautiful sonnet offering many variations on the one published in his collection Les Trophées , in 1893.

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Artemis

The acrid scent of the woods rising from all sides,
Huntress, has inflated your widened nostril,
And, in your virginal and virile energy,
Throwing back your hair, you leave!

And all day long you make Ortygia resound,

From the mad roar of the hoarse leopards
And leaped through the panting orgy
Of the great dogs disembowelled in the scattered red grass.

And, even more, it pleases you, Goddess!
let the thorn Tear and the tooth or the claw sink
Into your glorious arms that iron has avenged;

For your heart wants to taste this cruel sweetness
To mix in your games an immortal purple
With the horrible and black blood of slain monsters.

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Considered one of the most illustrious representatives of Parnassus, Heredia published, with Lemerre, in 1893, his poetic masterpiece: Les Trophées .

Composed almost exclusively of sonnets, the collection is divided into several evocations on Antiquity, History, Mythologies and Legends.

The collection received considerable success, making the work one of the last pinnacles of Parnassian poetry.