Robert Guiette

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Robert Guiette (born July 6, 1895 in Antwerp , † November 8, 1976 ibid) was a Belgian poet and Romanist .

life and work

Robert Guiette came from a family of painters: he was the son of the painter Jules Guiette (1852–1901) and the brother of the painter René Guiette (1893–1976). He studied in Leuven with Georges Doutrepont and François Bethune , as well as in Paris, where he came in contact with Fernand Léger , Blaise Cendrars , André Salmon , Jules Romains and Max Jacob . He received his doctorate in 1928 in Leuven with the work La Légende de la Sacristine. Étude de littérature comparée (Paris 1927, Geneva / Paris 1981) and followed Fernand Séverin (1867–1931) in Antwerp, first as suppléant (1929), then as charge de cours (1930), as extraordinary (1934), and finally as full professor (1937–1965). In 1949 he became a member of the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde, in 1954 of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique. In 1958 he filled the Francqui Chair in Leuven.

Guiette was an honorary doctorate from the University of Lille (1965) and in 1968 the recipient of the Grand Prix de poésie Albert Mockel, in which he was succeeded by Robert Vivier in 1978 . Roger Dragonetti was one of his students .

Other works

Seal (selection)

  • Peau neuve, Marseille 1933
  • Signatures, Brussels 1967
  • Poésie 1922-1967, Paris 1969
  • Cailloux, Paris 1973

Romance Studies

  • (Ed.) Croniques et conquestes de Charlemaine, 3 vol., Brussels 1940-1943-1951
  • (Translator) Lancelot de Danemark, drame du quatorzième siècle traduit du moyen-néerlandais, Brussels 1948
  • Marionnettes de tradition populaire, Brussels 1950
  • Max Elskamp [1862-1931], Paris 1955
  • (Ed.) François Villon, Oeuvres, Paris 1959, 1964 (LP)
  • Questions de literature, Ghent 1960
  • (Eds.) Max Elskamp and Jean de Bosschère [1878-1953]. Correspondance (1910-1923), Brussels 1963
  • (Ed.) Charles De Coster , La Légende d'Ulenspiegel, Paris 1969
  • Questions de literature. Seconde série, Gent 1972
  • D'une poésie formelle en France au Moyen Age, Paris 1972 (first 1949)
  • La vie de Max Jacob , Paris 1976
  • Form et senefiance. Etudes médiévales, Geneva 1978 (with list of publications)
  • Fabliaux et contes, Paris 1981

literature

  • Fin du Moyen Âge et Renaissance. Mélanges de philologie française offerts à Robert Guiette , Antwerp 1961
  • Maurice Piron in: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire 54, 1976, pp. 1290-1293
  • Robert Guiette, Monsieur Cendrars n'est jamais là [janvier-février 1922], ed. by Michel Décaudin, Montélimar 1991 (report on friendship with Blaise Cendrars)
  • Max Jacob, Lettres à Robert Guiette, ed. by Michel Décaudin, Paris 1996
  • Lettres françaises de Belgique. Dictionnaire des œuvres 2: La poésie , ed. by Christian Berg and Robert Frickx, Paris-Gembloux 1988, pp. 76, 380
  • Blaise Cendrars – Robert Guiette, Lettres 1920-1959: “Ne m'appelez plus… maître” , Michèle Touret éd., Genève, Editions Zoé, coll. “Cendrars en toutes lettres”, 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Guiette, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian poet and Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1976
Place of death Antwerp