Jacques Delille
Jacques Delille ( occasionally Abbé Delille, born June 22, 1738 in Clermont- Ferrand in the Auvergne, † May 1, 1813 in Paris) was a French poet.
Life
Jacques Delille was the son of the lawyer Montanier Delille and went at the Collège Lisieux to school in Paris. After graduation he became a teacher at the high school of Beauvais and Amiens, then in Paris. Early on, he showed a great poetic talent, but he was famous until 1769 by his translation of Virgil's Georgics.
As the successor of the natural scientist Charles Marie de La Condamine Delille in 1772 elected to the Académie française ( fauteuil 23), but his shooting was delayed because of his youth to 1774th He also became a Masonic lodge Les Neuf in Paris Sœurs.
After the reconnaissance had his teaching swapped with a professorship of Latin poetry at the Collège royal, he published in 1782 his first major original work, the didactic poem Les jardins, ou l'art d' embellir les paysages with which he was very successful, especially since he also an excellent narrator was.
After returning from a trip to Constantinople Opel, whither he had accompanied the French ambassador, diplomat and archaeologist Marie -Gabriel -Florent- Auguste de Choiseul - Gouffier, Delille was completely changed his position by the French Revolution. Although he retained his freedom, but lost his income of 30,000 francs from the Abbey of St. -Séverin, who had given him the Count of Artois.
During the Board he made a trip through Germany and England, returned to France in 1802 and resumed his professorship and his influential position in society.
Delille died on 1 May 1813 after he was completely blind in recent years.
Works
- Les Jardins. In 1782.
- L' homme des champs, ou les françaises Géorgiques. In 1800.
- Poésies fugitives. 1802.
- Dithyrambe sur l' Être et l' suprême immortalité de l' âme. 1802.
- Le malheur and the Pity. In 1803.
- L' imagination, poème en huit chants. , 1806.
- Les trois règnes de la nature. , 1809.
- La Conversation. In 1812.
- Oeuvre. Michaud, Paris 1824 (16 vols )
- Virgil: Aeneid l'. 1804.
- John Milton: Le paradis perdu. , 1805.
- Vergil: Les Géorgiques. Paris, 1782.
- Alexander Pope: l' essai sur l' homme ( " Essay on man"). Michaud, Paris 1821.