No. 94550044

Alfred de Musset - Poésies complètes. Contes d'Espagne et d'Italie. Poésies diverses - 1840
No. 94550044

Alfred de Musset - Poésies complètes. Contes d'Espagne et d'Italie. Poésies diverses - 1840
First collective edition, mostly original. The first printing from 1840 is described by Clouzot, which is distinguished by two errors in the table: it does not mention "What Young Girls Dream Of" and lists "Romance" instead of "Namouna". The table of the second printing is corrected and an errata has been added.
Clouzot adds "the first print is priced significantly higher than the second."
Important collection containing "a large number of pieces that were attached to the "Tales of Spain and Italy" (1830) & "A Show in an Armchair" (1833).
Copy established in a nice period binding in half red chagrin, ribbed spine, title and author, golden fillets forming compartments. Speckled edges.
Very good condition, well-preserved binding. Fresh interior, rare foxing.
Born after Lamartine, Vigny, and Hugo, Musset will be the eternal younger sibling of Romanticism, and Rolla will soon say: "I have come too late into a world that is too old." When in 1829 – at the age of nineteen – he publishes his first collection, the Tales of Spain and Italy, he hides nothing of his iconoclastic insolence, and this ease of demeanor, this openly displayed impudence is accompanied by a youthful grace that makes everything forgivable. Full of promptness and nonchalance, of casualness yet effectiveness, his poetry will open up to theater, welcoming all registers – worldly, political, satirical, or comic – and of course all amorous experiences, which it evokes in tones ranging from the most playful to the most serious. After the age of thirty, there are only sporadic outbursts from Musset, and yet sometimes magnificent: this work is entirely a work of youth. Poet of ease whose 'I' continuously invades the work? Perhaps. But in this open and ultimately mobile 'I,' everyone can recognize themselves. The poetry of Musset needs the reader, their sensibility and voice, to be completed and realized: this secret fragility is what keeps it alive for us.
Alfred de Musset
Complete Poems. Tales of Spain and Italy. Various Poems. A Show in an Armchair. New Poems.
Paris Carpenter 1840
In-12 (18 x 11 cm) faux-title, title, 2ff., 436pp.
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