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Manuscript by André Breton dated 1914, as a tribute to Francis Viellé-Griffin.
Published in La Phalange in 1914, this poem belongs to the young Breton’s brief symbolist period, as the dedication to Francis Viellé-Griffin in verse 13 shows. Breton kept a copy of it and never denied this initial Symbolist inspiration, from which part of his work draws its impetus; in his Entretiens in 1952 he would again consider how his earliest readings had awakened his sensibility and above all provided an exigency that is perhaps the real heritage of symbolism for surrealism. [Information communicated by the Valéry family.]
*This entry was translated from the French by Michael Richardson.
| Creation date | mars-14 |
| Date of publication | 1914 |
| Languages | French |
| Physical description | photocopie de Ms - encre noire |
| From / Provenance | Communiqué par la famille Valéry |
| Reference | 402000 |
| Keywords | Work notes, Poetry, symbolism |
| Categories | Manuscripts, Andre Breton's Manuscripts |
| Set | [AB's Manuscripts] Miscellaneous Manuscripts |
| Permanent link | https://cms.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100544850 |