Iconologie mélancolique et écriture du vieillir dans la poésie de Philippe Jaccottet
Melancholic iconology and literature of aging in the poetry of Philippe Jaccottet

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes the portrait of the poet as an old man, which lies in opposition to the wish of transparency expressed by Jaccottet in The Ignorant and which borrows its elements from the humorism of Greek medicine. So, this paper finds the melancholic ambivalence of his poetry and explains the opacity which persists there.

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