Mireio - A Provencal Poem #231869

Let us create one for the hearths of our sires and grand sires.' The boy of saint-remy had written French verses without the slightest literary pretension. Hence forth he will write Provencal verses, with the very definite aim of substituting a frank, healthful, honest, yet gay and genuinely popular style of poetry for that riot of coarse speech which had slain modesty in the ears of the young. Such was the birth of that new Pro vencal poetry which is to-day illustrated by the success of.