Annales Romantiques: Recueil de morceaux choisis de litterature
contemporaine. (Romanticist Annals: Anthology of Choice Morsels of
Contemporary Literature) Ed. J.A. Frontispiece by Achille Devéria. (1825) Sole Edition. Urbain Canel: Paris. Hardbound 32mo, 364 pp. w/ Bookplate of Léon Duchesne de la Sicotière.
This is the first volume of the Annales Romantiques, and several manifestos and theoretical essays attest to the outspokenness of its affiliation, including the volume's polemic preface, "The Romantic Genre," by Servière, and "Classical Impromptu" by Cénacle founder Charles Nodier, who also contributed a "Goodbye to the Romanticists" which merits closer scrutiny. It was edited by "J.A." and published by Urbain Canel, and there are several differences between it and the later volumes edited by Charles Malo and published by Janet. Unlike later volumes which were adorned with unrelated English engravings, this bears a frontispiece by one of the Devéria brothers, future founders of the Bouzingo group. Also unlike future editions, it is proceeded by a calendar with historical concordance, schedule of eclipses, and list of Saints Days–reminders that the "Anthology" was still a new form (of which the Annales' later editor Malo is sometimes credited as the main developer), still called "keepsake anthologies" at this time, and was groping its way out of other formats of heterogeneous materials, such as the Almanac. Published before the definitive shift of Romanticism to the left, this anthology includes political pieces from both Monarchists and Revolutionaries, the latter including an essay by the fanatical Romantic Casimir Delavigne on "The Misfortunes of Modern Greece" and an anti-slavery story by L.M. Fontan set in Martinique. Represented here are some of the first-generation French Romantics who had pulled from back from the movement's extremes by the 1830s and are not represented in later volumes, such as Benjamin Constant, Chateaubriand, Vigny, Scribe, and future Bouzingo enemy Henri de Latouche. But the roots of radical-gothic Frenetic Romanticism are also already strong with examples such as Maame Tastu's "Death," Campenon's "The Sick Young Girl, an Elegy," Chênedollé's "The Torment of Suicides, a Lament," and a couple translations of Byron's more misanthropic poems. This copy was owned by Léon Duchesne de la Sicotière, a local historian, bibliophile, and politician in Normandy.
This is the first volume of the Annales Romantiques, and several manifestos and theoretical essays attest to the outspokenness of its affiliation, including the volume's polemic preface, "The Romantic Genre," by Servière, and "Classical Impromptu" by Cénacle founder Charles Nodier, who also contributed a "Goodbye to the Romanticists" which merits closer scrutiny. It was edited by "J.A." and published by Urbain Canel, and there are several differences between it and the later volumes edited by Charles Malo and published by Janet. Unlike later volumes which were adorned with unrelated English engravings, this bears a frontispiece by one of the Devéria brothers, future founders of the Bouzingo group. Also unlike future editions, it is proceeded by a calendar with historical concordance, schedule of eclipses, and list of Saints Days–reminders that the "Anthology" was still a new form (of which the Annales' later editor Malo is sometimes credited as the main developer), still called "keepsake anthologies" at this time, and was groping its way out of other formats of heterogeneous materials, such as the Almanac. Published before the definitive shift of Romanticism to the left, this anthology includes political pieces from both Monarchists and Revolutionaries, the latter including an essay by the fanatical Romantic Casimir Delavigne on "The Misfortunes of Modern Greece" and an anti-slavery story by L.M. Fontan set in Martinique. Represented here are some of the first-generation French Romantics who had pulled from back from the movement's extremes by the 1830s and are not represented in later volumes, such as Benjamin Constant, Chateaubriand, Vigny, Scribe, and future Bouzingo enemy Henri de Latouche. But the roots of radical-gothic Frenetic Romanticism are also already strong with examples such as Maame Tastu's "Death," Campenon's "The Sick Young Girl, an Elegy," Chênedollé's "The Torment of Suicides, a Lament," and a couple translations of Byron's more misanthropic poems. This copy was owned by Léon Duchesne de la Sicotière, a local historian, bibliophile, and politician in Normandy.
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