Denis Saurat
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Born | Nice, France | 21 March 1890
Denis Saurat (21 March 1890 – 7 June 1958) was an Anglo-French scholar, writer, and broadcaster on a wide range of topics, including explaining French society and culture to the English and what he called "philosophical poetry."
Biography
He was born in Toulouse and died in Nice, France, but his most active years were spent in London, England. His views on the connection in the early modern period between the poetry of Edmund Spenser and John Milton and the occult, represented in particular by the Kabbalah, were ahead of their time: without surviving close scholarly analyses, they anticipated later studies such as those of Frances Yates.[1] He also interpreted in light of Philosophical Poetry the Prophetic Books of William Blake and discussed Blake's relationship to Milton and Celtic antiquarians.[2]
At the outbreak of
The term "Scottish Renaissance" was brought into critical prominence by Saurat in his article "Le Groupe de la Renaissance Écossaise", which was published in the Revue Anglo-Américaine in April 1924.[5]
Works
- La pensée de Milton (1920) as Milton: Man and Thinker (1925)
- Blake and Milton (1922)
- Milton et le matérialisme chrétien en Angleterre (1928) as Milton and Materialism
- The Three Conventions: Metaphysical Dialogues, Principia Metaphysica, and Commentary (1926)
- Tendances, essays de critique (1928)
- Blake and Modern Thought (1929)
- La religion de Victor Hugo (1929)
- La littérature et l'occultisme. Études sur la poésie philosophique moderne (1929) as Literature and Occult Tradition (1930) translated by Dorothy Bolton
- Histoire des Religions (1933) as A History of Religions (1934)
- Selected Essays and Critical Writings of A. R. Orage (1935) editor with Herbert Read
- Modernes (1935)
- La fin de la peur (1937) as The End of Fear
- Perspectives (1938)
- French War Aims (1940)
- The Christ at Chartres (1940)
- The Spirit of France (1940)
- Regeneration, with a Letter from General de Gaulle (1941)
- Watch Over Africa (1941)
- Death and the Dreamer (1946) as La mort et le rêveur (1947)
- Modern French Literature, 1870-1940 (1946)
- William Blake Selected Poems (1947) editor
- Gods of the People (1947)
- Angels and Beasts (1947) French short stories, editor
- La religion esotérique de Victor Hugo (1948)
- Victor Hugo et les dieux du people (1948) La Littérature et l'occultisme II
- L'expérience de l'au-delà (1951)
- William Blake (1954) in French
- L'Atlantide et le règne des géants (1954) as Atlantis and the Giants (1957)
- La religion des géants et la civilisation des insectes (1955)
- Commentary on Beelzebub's Tales (1969)
- The Denis Saurat Reader (2004)
- Early Earth (2006)
- John Robert Colombo (2003), editor, O Rare Denis Saurat
- John Robert Colombo (2004), editor, The Denis Saurat Reader
- John Robert Colombo (2006), editor, Early Earth
- Jean-François Courouau (2010), author, translator, Encaminament Catar
Notes
- ^ E.gm. Frances Amelia Yates, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age (1999 edition), pp. 178-9.
- ^ Mona Wilson, The Life of William Blake, notes p. 118, 191, 296.
- ^ Perrie, Walter (1980), Nietzche and the Drunk Man, in Cencrastus No. 2, Spring 1980, pp. 9 - 12
- ^ Nicholas Atkin, The Forgotten French (2003), p. 213.
- ^ I. Ousby ed., The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (1995) p. 839.