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50 - ELUARD, Paul (1895–1952).
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ELUARD, Paul (1895–1952). 2 autograph POEMS signed “Paul Eluard,” dated Poitiers, August 17 and 21, 1943; 1 oblong page, small in-4 format, on graph paper. Two poems from the Occupation. Description: [Le mur], August 17, 1943. The poem’s title, incomplete, has been crossed out: “Inép”; the manuscript contains numerous cross-outs and corrections, including a variant in the fourth line. The poem was included in 1944 in *Le lit la table* (Geneva, Éditions des Trois Collines), where it was titled *Le mur* and dedicated to Sophie Taeuber-Arp; it consists of four couplets and a final single line. “Impatience, violence, uprooted tree An arrow before the bird, its wings torn off”… *Le miroir*, August 21, 1943. A very different first version of the poem that would open, untitled, the collection *Sept poèmes d’amour en guerre*, printed clandestinely in Saint-Flour in 1943 under the pseudonym Jean du Haut. The poem consists of 21 lines; the manuscript contains numerous cross-outs and corrections, with variations, particularly in the first stanza. “Your eyes were a ship A ship master of the wind And your eyes were a country That one rediscovers in an instant”…
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