Armand Godoy

Armand Godoy, (1880 Havana - 1964 Lausanne), was a Cuban Symbolist poet.

Life

Initially engaged in the Cuban tobacco trade, he changed his language at forty to become a French poet "in the language of Baudelaire" and settled in Paris in 1919. He was a bibliophile and collector; he devoted a special admiration to Baudelaire, of whom he possessed a considerable number of documents and memoires, notably the letters of Baudelaire to his mother.

Deeply attached to the poets of Parnassus and symbolism, he was the holder of an impressive collection of books, manuscripts, paintings, engravings and sculptures. All Godoy's work is directed towards a sort of appeasement of the soul and a forgetting of the physical condition of the poet, by the musicality of the phrases, as if the singing sounds of words contained an absolute and divine secret. "I seek ... The words of fire that have never been said," he writes in Hosanna on the Sister (1928).

Beyond the music of words, it is the rhythm of sentences that surprises his contemporaries. "M. Armand Godoy is, above all, a master of rhythms," writes Joseph Riviere, who emphasizes the importance of "rhythmic anxiety" (the expression is by Olivier Messiaen) in poetic godoyan art. "This poet, it would be said, thinks by rhythms, spreads and asserts himself by musical waves. "Finally Paul Petitot Godoy called the "prince of rhythm".[1]

Armand Godoy funded Phalanx, literary magazine founded in 1906 by the initiator of the "musicisme" Jean Royère, which collaborated John Antoine Nau, Francis Vielé-Griffin, Rene Ghil, Andre Spire, Emile Verhaeren, Louis Chadourne, André Gide . " The Phalanx was an early conciliation journals that appeared in this time of fragmentation and confusion groups and schools immediately following the final entry of the symbolism in the Literary History of France."[2]

Works

  • To José-Maria de Heredia, sonnets, Lemerre publisher, Paris, 1925
  • Creole songs. The Friends of Edward (Champion), Paris, 1926
  • Sad and tender. Emile-Paul Frères, 1927
  • The Carnival of Schumann. Emile Paul Frères. 1927
  • Hosanna on the Sister, Bernard Grasset Publisher, Paris, 1928
  • Monologue of Sadness and Symposium of Joy. Emile Paul Frères. 1928
  • The Drama of the Passion, Bernard Grasset publisher, Paris, 1929
  • Foch. Emile Paul Frères, 1929
  • The Crow of Edgar Poe. (Translation in verse). Emile-Paul Frères, 1929
  • Selected poems by José Marti. (Translation in verse). Emile Paul Frères, 1929
  • The litanies of the Virgin. Albert Messein. 1930
  • The mystical Brasier. Emile-Paul Frères, 1930
  • Four Nocturnes (Translation in verse). Emile Paul Frères. 1930.
  • Les Petits pink shoes by José Marti. (Translation in verse). Emile Paul Frères. 1931
  • Marcel, Dramatic poem. Émile-Paul Frères, Paris, 1932
  • Ite, Missa est, Bernard Grasset publisher, Paris, 1933
  • The Poem of the Atlantic, Bernard Grasset publisher, Paris, 1938
  • Bréviaire, Emmanuel Vitte Publisher, Lyon, Paris, 1941
  • From Vespers to Matins, Egloff, Friborg in Switzerland, 1944
  • My son ! My son ! , Egloff, Friborg in Switzerland, 1946
  • Rossignol, Egloff, Paris, 1949
  • L'Herbier d'Armand Godoy, Egloff, Friborg in Switzerland, 1949
  • Sonnets for the dawn, Bernard Grasset publisher, Paris, 1949
  • Colloquy of Joy, Bernard Grasset Publisher, Paris, Paris, 1951
  • Dulcinée, Bernard Grasset Publisher, Paris, 1957
  • Milosz the poet of love, André Silvaire publisher, Paris, 1960
  • Poetic Translations, Bernard Grasset Publisher, Paris, 1961

Notes

  1. ↑ Paul Petitot, "Armand Godoy, prince of rhythm" in Mediterranea , 11 th year, Nice, 1937, p. 181.
  2. ↑ Valery Larbaud A literary campaign , Camille Bloch, 1927.

References

  • André-A. Devaux, Armand Godoy, poète catholique, Éditions des portiques, Paris, 1933
  • Joseph Boly, Armand Godoy, poète cubain de langue française, Éditions Latines, Paris, 1974
  • Anne Fontaine, Armand Godoy, Bernard Grasset éditeur, Paris, 1959
  • Patrick Quillier, Du symbolisme au musicisme : Armand Godoy, une étude approfondie de la musicalité poétique de Godoy
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