Francis Jammes

JAMMES, FRANCIS (1868-1938), French poet and novel ist, was born at Tournai Dec. 2, 1868, and when still a child went to live at Orthez. He studied at the College de Pau and the College de Bordeaux, and afterwards became for a short time a notary's clerk at Orthez. There he published his first verses, in 1893, and from the countryside of Orthez he drew much of the matter of his poetical work. After that date, his poems and novels succeeded each other rapidly. The chief characteristics of his style are a great simplicity and a preoccupation with the humble manifesta tions of everyday life, especially of French provincial life. Much

of his work is profoundly religious and Catholic. His Oeuvres (2 vols.) were collected in 1925.

Among his works

are: De l'Angelus de l'aube a l'Angelus du soir (1898) ; Clara d'Ellebeuse (1899) ; Les georgiques chritiennes (1912) ; Feuilles dans le vent (1914) ; Le Rosaire au Soleil (1916) ; Le Cure d'Ozeron (1918) ; Les livres des quatrains (1923-25) ; Ma France poitique (1926). See also T. Braun; Des poetes simples: Francis Jammes (Iwo) ; A. de Bersancourt, Francis Jammes, poete chretien (Iwo) ; A. Lowell, Six French Poets (1915) ; P. Lasserre, Les chapelles litteraires (1920).