Raymond RADIGUET – His vision of poetry and the use of free verse.

Raymond RADIGUET (1903.1923)

Autograph letter signed to Edouard Dujardin [?]

A page in-4° on paper with a serrated edge.

Without place. March 28, 1921.

“When one of my poems seems not to be written in verse, it is not for that reason less organized, nor more “free” than a sonnet. »

Very beautiful letter from Raymond Radiguet giving, in opposition to his correspondent, his opinion on the prosodic form of poetry and on the nonsense of the use of free verses: “ How can verses »

_____________________________________________________________

“Dear Sir, Marcel Sauvage having asked me for a poem from you for the “Cahiers idealistes” it was with pleasure that I sent one. I could not have suspected the distinction you make between the different prosodic forms. How can worms For me, when one of my poems seems not to be written in verse, it is not therefore less organized, nor more “free” than a sonnet.

I will be very grateful to you for sending back the “Sheepfold” that I intended for you. Please believe, dear sir, in my best feelings. Raymond Radiguet. »

_____________________________________________________________

Bergerie is an octosyllabic poem dedicated to Georges Auric.

Created in February 1917 by Edouard Dujardin, Les Cahiers idealistes français , a “journal of literature, art and philosophy” with a pacifist vocation, offered in its first issue a Hymn to Peace by Caroline Rémy, known as Séverine.