Synopses & Reviews
Written before his death of TB at 27, this subtle work leaves indelible impression.
Synopsis
Jules Laforgue has been called the "French Keats, " but his circumstances were worlds removed from the English Romantic: in 1881, Laforgue went to Berlin to serve the Empress Augusta, reading to her twice a day from French books and newspapers. During his five years at the palace Laforgue produced much of the poetry that would greatly influence T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound; and in the year before his death from tuberculosis at age 27, he completed BERLIN: THE CITY AND THE COURT. Here a cultural reporter, Laforgue shows what people wore, ate, did; what they saw and heard.