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Thompson: Les Saisons. Poeme. Traduit de l'anglais. Avec gravures de Blanchard, dessinees par Binet. 1.er Vol. de la collection. Paris, Imprimerie de Patris, 1795.
James Thomson, der Autor dieses Werkes, ist ein schottischer Poet, der am 11. September 1700 in Ednam in Roxburghshire geboren wurde. Zu seine bekanntesten Werken gehört neben "The Seasons" auch das lyrische Werk "Rule, Britannia" (http://www.cix.co.uk/~lumpkin/rulebrit.mp3). Vierzehn Jahre nach dem englischen Original (1744) veröffentlichte Barthold Heinrich Brockes seine deutsche Fassung der Seasons. Im Jahr 1801 erschien Joseph Haydns Oratorium "Die Jahreszeiten" mit einer auszugsweisen Textbearbeitung durch Gottfried van Swieten. Während seiner Zeit als Student der Theologie an der Universität Edinburgh veröffentlichte er erste Gedichte, die hauptsächlich das Jed Valley, in dem er aufwuchs, zum Thema hatten. Als seine Predigten dann als zu blumig kritisiert wurden, gab er sein Studium auf und ging 1725 nach London. Dort traf er andere Literaten, darunter seinen Landsmann David Mallet, und wurde schnell erfolgreich. Er gewann die Gunst von Frederick, Prinz von Wales, den er auch politisch unterstützte und wurde Hauslehrer von Sir Charles Talbot Sohn. 1730 wurden seine Gedichte unter dem Titel "The Seasons" veröffentlicht und sein nächstgrößeres Werk war Liberty (1734), das er dem Prinzen von Wales widmete. Er schrieb mehrere Theaterstücke, darunter The Tragedy of Sophonisba (1734) und arbeitete mit Mallet zusammen an dem Maskenspiel" Alfred", dass das Lied 'Rule Britannia' enthielt und in Cliveden, dem Landsitz des Prinzen von Wales, uraufgeführt wurde. Nach Talbots Tod verlor Thomson die Gunst des Prinzen und seine Karriere endete mit 'The Castle of Indolence', seinem bekanntesten Stück, das kurz vor seinem Tod veröffentlicht wurde. Darüber hinaus bildete dieses Werk den Anlass für zwei wichtige Rechtsentscheidungen (Millar v. Taylor; Donaldson v. Beckett) in der Geschichte des Copyrights. (Wikipedia). James Thomson (11 September 1700 - 27 August 1748) was a Scottish poet and playwright, known for his masterpiece The Seasons and the lyrics of Rule, Britannia! James Thomson was born in Ednam in Roxburghshire around 11 September 1700. The fourth of nine children of Thomas Thomson and Beatrix Thomson. Beatrix Thomson was born in Fogo, Berwickshire and was a distant relation of the house of Hume. Thomas Thomson was the Presbyterian minister of Ednam until eight weeks after Thomson's birth, when he was admitted as minister of Southdean, where Thomson spent most of his early years.Thomson may have attended the parish school of Southdean before going to the grammar school in Jedburgh in 1712. He failed to distinguish himself there. He was, however, encouraged to write poetry by Robert Riccaltoun (1691-1769), a farmer, poet and Presbyterian minister; and Sir William Bennet (d. 1729), a whig laird who was a patron of Allan Ramsay. While some early poems by Thomson survive, he burned most of them on New Year's Day each year. Thomson entered the College of Edinburgh in autumn 1715, destined for the Presbyterian ministry. At Edinburgh he studied metaphysics, Logic, Ethics, Greek, Latin and Natural Philosophy. He completed his arts course in 1719 but chose not to graduate, instead entering Divinity Hall to become a minister. In 1716 Thomas Thomson died, with local legend saying that he was killed whilst performing an exorcism. At Edinburgh Thomson became member of the Grotesque Club, a literary group, and he met his lifelong friend David Mallet. After the successful publication of some of his poems in the ''Edinburgh Miscellany'' Thomson followed Mallet to London in February 1725 in an effort to publish his verse. In London Thomson became a tutor to the son of Charles Hamilton, Lord Binning, through connections on his mother's side of the family. Through David Mallet, by 1724 a published poet, Thomson met the great English poets of the day including Richard Savage, Aaron Hill and Alexander Pope. Thomson's mother died on 12 May 1725, around the time of his writing 'Winter', the first poem of ''The Seasons''. 'Winter' was first published in 1726 by John Millian , with a second edition being released (with revisions, additions and a preface) later the same year. By 1727 Thomson was working on Summer, published in February, and was working at Watt's Academy, a school for young gentlemen and a bastion of Newtonian science. In the same year Millian published a poem by Thomson titled 'A Poem to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton' (who had died in March). Leaving Watt's academy Thomson hoped to earn a living through his poetry, helped by his acquiring several wealthy patrons including Thomas Rundle, the countess of Hertford and Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot. He wrote Spring in 1728 and finally Autumn in 1730, when the set of four was published together as The Seasons. During this period he also wrote other poems, such as to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton, and his first play, The Tragedy of Sophonisba (1729). The latter is best known today for its mention in Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets, where Johnson records that one 'feeble' line of the poem - "O, Sophonisba, Sophonisba, O!" was parodied by the wags of the theatre as, "O, Jemmy Thomson, Jemmy Thomson, O!". In 1730 he became tutor to the son of Sir Charles Talbot, then Solicitor-General, and spent nearly two years in the company of the young man on a tour of Europe . On his return Talbot arranged for him to become a secretary in chancery, which gave him financial security until Talbot's death in 1737. Meanwhile there appeared his next major work, Liberty (1734). In 1740 he collaborated with Mallet on the masque Alfred which was first performed at Cliveden, the country home of the Frederick, Prince of Wales. Thomson's words for "Rule Britannia", written as part of that masque and set to music by Thomas Arne, became one of the most well-known British patriotic songs - quite apart from the masque which is now virtually forgotten. The Prince gave him a pension of 100 per annum. He had also introduced him to George Lyttelton, who became his friend and patron. In later years Thomson lived in Richmond upon Thames, and it was there that he wrote his final work The Castle of Indolence, which was published just before his untimely death on August 27, 1748. Johnson writes about Thomson's death, "by taking cold on the water between London and Kew, he caught a disorder, which, with some careless exasperation, ended in a fever that put end to his life". A dispute over the publishing rights to one of his works, The Seasons gave rise to two important legal decisions (Millar v. Taylor; Donaldson v. Beckett) in the history of copyright. Thomson's The Seasons was translated into German by Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1745). This translation formed the basis for a work with the same title by Gottfried van Swieten, which became the libretto for Haydn's oratorio The Seasons. (Wikipedia)

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Beckett, Samuel, Schriftsteller (1906-1989). Eigenh. Brief mit U. ("Sam. Beckett"). [Paris, 8. I. 1974].
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Samadi Rendy, Leila: Self-deconstructive Poetry of Samuel Beckett A Derridean Reading, VDM VERLAG DR. MÜLLER, November 2010, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3639304446
Jacques Derrida in an interview with Derek Attridge once claimed that Samuel Beckett's works are self-deconstructive. The present book tries to prove this claim reading Beckett's poetry in light of Derridean ideas. Beckett has deconstructed each of the motifs of time, death, identity, love, language and imagery in his poems by finding their being a supplement to their opposite, and the undecidability in their nature, or elaborating on them in a way that they can easily be labeled with the terminology of Derrida, although he does not use these terms. Deconstructive approach of Beckett towards the above mentioned themes in his poems is as significant as in his fictions and dramas. However, his poetry has been mostly ignored by critics. In this book the researcher has focused on these precious literary works and translated the French ones into English as a contribution to Beckett who always loved to be known as a poet.

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