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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD LAFORGUE

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PRONUNCIATION OF LAFORGUE

Laforgue play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LAFORGUE

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Laforgue is a noun.
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WHAT DOES LAFORGUE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Laforgue

Jules Laforgue

Jules Laforgue was a Franco-Uruguayan poet, often referred to as a Symbolist poet. Critics and commentators have also pointed to Impressionism as a direct influence and his poetry has been called "part-symbolist, part-impressionist".

Definition of Laforgue in the English dictionary

The definition of Laforgue in the dictionary is Jules. 1860–87, French symbolist poet. An originator of free verse, he had a considerable influence on modern poetry.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE LAFORGUE

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Synonyms and antonyms of Laforgue in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Laforgue» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LAFORGUE

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Translator English - Chinese

Laforgue
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Laforgue
570 millions of speakers

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Laforgue
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Laforgue
380 millions of speakers
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Laforgue
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Лафорга
278 millions of speakers

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Laforgue
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

লাফর্গের
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Laforgue
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Laforgue
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Laforgue
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ラフォルグ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Laforgue
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Laforgue
85 millions of speakers
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Laforgue
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Laforgue
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लॅफोर्गे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Laforgue
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Laforgue
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Laforgue
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Лафорга
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Laforgue
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Λαφόργκ
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Laforgue
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Laforgue
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Laforgue
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Laforgue

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LAFORGUE»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LAFORGUE» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LAFORGUE»

Discover the use of Laforgue in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Laforgue and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Jules LaForgue and poetic innovation
This is the first work in English devoted entirely to the poetry of Jules Laforgue (1860-1887).
Anne Holmes, 1993
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Poems of Jules Laforgue
Bilingual edition offering the most complete and formal translation of the important 19th century French poet.
Jules Laforgue, 2001
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Aestheticism & Modernism: Debating Twentieth-century ...
In the Prufrock poems he was especially attentive to Laforgue's particular take on Symbolism. Laforgue's ideas and poetry offered the concrete experience of Symbolism that drew out the poet - the Anglophone Symbolist in Eliot. Now read  ...
Richard Danson Brown, Suman Gupta, 2005
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Leonardo's Nephew: Essays on Art and Artists
Eliza Rathbone in the catalog tells us that the young man talking to Charles Ephrussi in the background is Jules Laforgue. It would have been nice to be told where this identification comes from, since it seems to have been unknown to the late ...
James Fenton, 2000
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Diary of a Philosophy Student: 1926-27
La princesse de Clèves. Paris: Gallimard, 2002. Translated by Walter J. Cobb as La Princesse de Clèves (New York: Meridian, 1995). Laforgue, Jules. “Ah! que d' Elle-même . . .” (first line of poem “IX,” untitled). In Laforgue, Oeuvres complètes, ...
Simone de Beauvoir, Barbara Klaw, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, 2006
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Ivory Apes and Peacocks - Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman, Jules ...
We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
James Huneker, 2010
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Essential Poems and Prose of Jules Laforgue
This book is a revised and expanded edition of Terry's Poems of Jules Laforgue (1958). Also included here is Laforgue's prose tale "Perseus and Andromeda," translated with Nancy Kline.
Jules Laforgue, 2010
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Eliot's Dark Angel : Intersections of Life and Art: ...
the entirety of his career Eliot never ceased to reiterate and rethink the importance of Laforgue to him in his periodic discussions of influences. "I do feel more grateful to him than to anyone else," he wrote to a correspondent who praised the ...
Ronald Schuchard Goodrich C. White Professor of English Emory University, 1999
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A Companion to the Historical Film
questions his faith in Catholicism (his European identity), yet stubbornly refuses to validate Daniel's newly adopted indigenous perspective, from which the Algonquins are "true Christians": LaForgue: I'm afraid of this country. The devil rules ...
Robert A. Rosenstone, Constantin Parvulescu, 2012
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Critical Companion to T. S. Eliot: A Literary Reference to ...
Laforgue, Jules (1860–1887) The influence that the tragically short poetic career of the French symbolist poet Jules Laforgue had on T. S. Eliot is very likely incalculable but nevertheless cannot be exaggerated since it is quite well documented ...
Russell E. Murphy, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LAFORGUE»

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Patrick McGuinness
Tonks prowls through bohemian London like a feral Laforgue, the poet she most resembles in her mix of rawness and over-cultivation. «London Review of Books, Jun 15»
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TS Eliot: poet's pain revealed in Robert Crawford's Young Eliot
Though it was Jules Laforgue who was the revelation. “I do feel more grateful to him than anyone else, and I do not think that I have come ... «The Australian, Jun 15»
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The Young T.S. Eliot
In particular, he was thunderstruck by the lines he read from Jules Laforgue, the sophisticated, neurasthenic, ironical French poet, who was just 27 years old ... «Harvard Magazine, Jun 15»
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German film nights
The film, based on the novel Under the Bridges of Paris by Leo de Laforgue, is set in summer on the river Spree. Willy and Hendrik, the owner ... «Cyprus Mail, Jun 15»
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Young Eliot review: How TS grew out of Tom
For it introduced him to French poet Jules Laforgue​, from whom Eliot got his poetic "voice": the "voice" that, in a relatively short space of time, ... «Sydney Morning Herald, May 15»
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'Young Eliot' humanizes a controversial character
Eliot finally discovered his true voice when, in 1909, he happened upon the work of Jules Laforgue. Electrified by what he read of Laforgue in ... «Concord Monitor, May 15»
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Gustave Caillebotte André Dombrowski
AS LIFE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY sped up, so did the century's art. Paintings created in “fifteen minutes,” as the poet and critic Jules Laforgue described ... «Artforum, Apr 15»
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Laforgue, Williams
Mrs. Sharon (Terry) Williams of Hilton Head Island announces the engagement of her son, David Bruce Williams, to Dominique Marie Laforgue, ... «Hilton Head Island Packet, Apr 15»
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TS Eliot's American childhood
Eliot finally discovered his true voice when, in 1909, he happened upon the work of Jules Laforgue. Electrified by what he read of Laforgue in ... «Washington Post, Apr 15»
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Biography review: 'Young Eliot,' by Robert Crawford
French symbolist poetry also captivated Eliot, particularly the work of Jules Laforgue. The pocket-sized, dual-language edition of Dante's Divine ... «Dallas Morning News, Apr 15»

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