A very interesting document from Paul Éluard committing to French Radio Broadcasting to "provide five unpublished texts […] entitled THE PATHS OF POETRY, the first performance of which is expressly reserved for French Radio Broadcasting."
1.200€
Paul Éluard (1895.1952)
Piece signed with autograph postscript
Two typed quarto pages.
Paris. February 1, 1949.
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A very interesting document from Paul Éluard committing to French Radio Broadcasting to "provide five unpublished texts […] entitled THE PATHS OF POETRY, the first performance of which is expressly reserved for French Radio Broadcasting."
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In 1949, Paul Éluard dedicated a series of five poetic programs to French Radio, Les chemins et les routes de la poésie (The Paths and Roads of Poetry), aiming not only to convey to listeners a broader conception of poetry, but also to convince them of their own poetic abilities.