Adolphe Dumas
Adolphe Dumas (born December 18, 1805 in Caumont-sur-Durance , † August 15, 1861 in Dieppe ) was a French poet, playwright and Provençalist .
life and work
Adolphe Dumas, who was born and raised in Provence , had close ties to French Romantic authors in Paris and was a well-known poet and playwright in France around the middle of the 19th century (whose works are now forgotten).
Dumas played a decisive role in the rapid triumph of the epic Mirèio by Frédéric Mistral . On behalf of the Minister of Education, Hippolyte Fortoul , looking for Provencal folk songs, he met Mistral in Maillane on February 5, 1856 , took a look at the manuscript that was in progress and, on August 29, 1858, presented Mistral personally (with the now finished text) in Paris Alphonse de Lamartine , whose 80-page enthusiastic review in the Cours familier de littérature (40e Entretien) ensured immediate success in Paris.
Lamartine identified his friend Adolphe Dumas in the same text (and in contrast to the two Alexandre Dumas, father and son ) as "le Dumas poétique, le Dumas prophétique, le Dumas de la Durance, celui qui jette de temps en temps des cris d ' aigles sur les roches de Provence […], que je respecte à cause de son éternelle inspiration, et que j'aime à cause de sa rigoureuse sincérité. »
Works (selection)
- Provence , Paris 1840
- Les Philosophes baptisés. Etudes , Paris 1845
- Un liame de rasin countenènt lis obro de Castil-Blaze, Adòufe Dumas [Adolphe Dumas], Jan Reboul, Glaup e T. Poussel , ed. by Joseph Roumanille and Frédéric Mistral, Avignon 1865
literature
- Alphonse de Lamartine, 40e Entretien. Littérature villageoise. Apparition d'un poëme épique en Provence, in: Derselbe, Cours familier de littérature. Un entretien par mois. Tome septième , Paris 1859, pp. 233–312 (on Adolphe Dumas: pp. 235–236) ( http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k294746.r=.langFR )
- Frédéric Neveu Mistral , Un poète bilingue. Adolphe Dumas 1806-1861. Ses relations avec les romantiques et avec les félibres , Paris 1927
- Pierre Devoluy , Mistral et la rédemption d'une langue , Paris 1941, pp. 144–178
- Correspondance de Frédéric Mistral et Adolphe Dumas 1856-1861 , ed. by Frédéric Mistral (Neveu) and Charles Rostaing , Gap 1959
- Suzanne Olivé, Un romantique provençal. Adolphe Dumas , Diss. Montpellier 1990
Web links
- Literature by and about Adolphe Dumas in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dumas, Adolphe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French poet, playwright and Provençalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 18, 1805 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Caumont-sur-Durance |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 15, 1861 |
| Place of death | Dieppe |