Downer, who visited Mistral at his home in Provence, explains the revival of the Provençal language, the founding of the Félibrige, the dialect and versification of its poets and Mistral’s great dictionary, then turns to the poems themselves, among them Mirèio and Calendau, with generous translated extracts.
A clear early English study of the poet who later shared the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature. Download the free EPUB.