Poèsies sociales des ouvriers. (Social Poetry by Labourers) Ed. Olinde Rodrigues
(1841). First Ed. Paulin: Paris. Hardbound Octavo, 572 pp. Rebound w/
Library Binding on Aug. 24, 1937 by Hehn & Hoth; Bookplate etc.,
Stamps, Card etc. from library of Meadville Theological School, Chicago.
This anthology collects socialist poetry, songs, and plays written by both male and female auto-didact working-class writers, most of whom were otherwise unpublished; each piece notes not only the author's name but also the trade by which they earned their living. One of the first anthologies dedicated to giving unschooled manual labourers a voice within the developing socialist movement, it was edited by the radical Jewish activist and mathematician Olinde Rodrigues. Rodrigues was one of the leaders and principal theorists of the Saint-Simonist proto-Socialist movement, having been Saint-Simon's close friend and secretary prior to the latter's death. He was also responsible for coining the term "avant-garde" in its modern sense, in his 1825 essay, "L'artiste, le savant et l'industriel" ("The Artist, the Intellectual, and the Industrialist") in which he called for the formation of a community of experimental artists who would evolve new forms of culture, thought and behaviour to usher forth revolutionary change by peaceful means. Four years later Alphonse Brot, a co-founder of the Bouzingo, referred to himself as an adherent of the "avant-garde of Romanticism," at a time when his comrades O'Neddy, Borel, Duseigneur, and others are known to have been attending Saint-Simonist lectures and would soon describe their own activity in very similar terms. This volume, with an extended preface by Rodrigues, re-affirms his project of poetry as a socially revolutionary force.
The copy in the Revenant archive was at one point housed in the library of the Unitarian Meadville Theological School in Chicago, probably as of 1937 when it was re-bound, where--according to the card, it was never checked out.
This anthology collects socialist poetry, songs, and plays written by both male and female auto-didact working-class writers, most of whom were otherwise unpublished; each piece notes not only the author's name but also the trade by which they earned their living. One of the first anthologies dedicated to giving unschooled manual labourers a voice within the developing socialist movement, it was edited by the radical Jewish activist and mathematician Olinde Rodrigues. Rodrigues was one of the leaders and principal theorists of the Saint-Simonist proto-Socialist movement, having been Saint-Simon's close friend and secretary prior to the latter's death. He was also responsible for coining the term "avant-garde" in its modern sense, in his 1825 essay, "L'artiste, le savant et l'industriel" ("The Artist, the Intellectual, and the Industrialist") in which he called for the formation of a community of experimental artists who would evolve new forms of culture, thought and behaviour to usher forth revolutionary change by peaceful means. Four years later Alphonse Brot, a co-founder of the Bouzingo, referred to himself as an adherent of the "avant-garde of Romanticism," at a time when his comrades O'Neddy, Borel, Duseigneur, and others are known to have been attending Saint-Simonist lectures and would soon describe their own activity in very similar terms. This volume, with an extended preface by Rodrigues, re-affirms his project of poetry as a socially revolutionary force.
The copy in the Revenant archive was at one point housed in the library of the Unitarian Meadville Theological School in Chicago, probably as of 1937 when it was re-bound, where--according to the card, it was never checked out.
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