Jean Moréas

Jean Moréas
Jean Moréas, portrait by Antonio de La Gandara.

Jean Moréas (born Ioannis A. Papadiamantopoulos, Ιωάννης Α. Παπαδιαμαντόπουλος; April 15, 1856 - April 30, 1910), was a Greek[1] poet, essayist, and art critic, who wrote mostly in the French language but also in Greek during his youth.[2]

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Background

Moréas was born into a distinguished Athenian family. His ancestors included two well-known men of the Greek War of Independence, namely his paternal grandfather and namesake Ioannis Papadiamantopoulos (1766–1826), born in Corinth but of ultimately Epirote ancestry,[3] (he was executed after the fall of Missolonghi)[4] and his maternal granduncle Iakovos Tombazis (c. 1782-1829),[5] a renowned Arvanite from Hydra, who became the first admiral of the Greek navy.[6] Moreas' father was Adamantios Papadiamantopoulos, a judge, scholar and poet.[7] He received a French education, and went to Paris in 1875 to study law at the University of Paris. While in France, he began associating with literary circles, and became acquainted with Les Hydropathes, a group of French writers that included Alphonse Allais, Charles Cros, Guy de Maupassant, and Léon Bloy. He was also an acquaintance of the Greek artist Demetrios Galanis and the Romanian poet Ion Minulescu.

Works

Moréas published poetry in his publications Lutèce and Le Chat noir, and collected his poems into two editions, Les Syrtes ("The Sandbanks") and Cantilènes, which were strongly influenced by Paul Verlaine.

He was initially a practitioner of the style of Symbolism, and wrote the Symbolist Manifesto (1886), which he published in the newspaperLe Figaro, partly to redeem the reputation of the new generation of young writers from the charge of "decadence" that the press had implied. He was considered one of the most important Symbolist poets until the early 1890s.

In 1891, as Symbolism became more openly associated with anarchism, he published Le Pèlerin passioné which rejected Northern European and Germanic influences, such as Romanticism (as well as some aspects of Symbolism), in favor of Ancient Roman and Ancient Greek influences. This work helped initiate the École Romane, the aesthetic of which provided Charles Maurras with the ideology necessary for the far-right philosophy Action Française.

Moréas also wrote Les Demoiselles Goubert, a novel, in association with Paul Adam. His most important publications were:

  • Les Syrtes (1884)
  • Les Cantilènes (1886)
  • Le Pèlerin passioné (1891)
  • Stances (1893)
  • Contes de la vielle France (1904)

References

  1. ^ Butler 1967, p. 176; Rees 1992, p. 388; Shipley 1972, p. 235.
  2. ^ Τρυγόνες καί Έχιδνες - Vipers and Turtledoves (1873).
  3. ^ Jouanny 1975, Chapter II: "Histoire d' une Famille", pp. 51-53.
  4. ^ Finlay 1861, p. 111.
  5. ^ Jouanny 1975, Chapter II: "Histoire d' une Famille", p. 60.
  6. ^ Raynaud 1929, "Jean Moreas: L' Homme: sa vie intime", pp. 11-12.
  7. ^ Adamson 2007, p. 70; Rees 1992, p. 388; Tiryakian 2009, p. 157; Hammerton 1975, p. 1011.

Sources

Further reading

  • A. Embiricos. Les étapes de Jean Moréas. Lausanne, 1948.
  • R. Georgin. Jean Moréas. Paris, 1930.
  • Jean de Gourmont. Jean Moréas. Paris, 1905.
  • J. Weber. Jean Moréas u. die französische Tradition. Nuremberg, 1934.

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