The second volume of notes and reflections from one of Switzerland's most prominent and prolific men of letters. One of Europe's finest contemporary poets, Jaccottet is a writer of exacting attention. Through keen observations of the natural world, art, literature, and music, and reflections on the human condition, Jaccottet opens his readers' eyes to the transcendent in everyday life. The Second Seedtime is a collection of "things seen, things read, and things dreamed." The volume continues the project Jaccottet began three decades earlier in his first volume of notebooks, Seedtime. Here, again, he gathers flashes of beauty dispersed around him like seeds that may blossom into poems or moments of inspiration. He returns, insistently, to such literary touchstones as Dante, Montaigne, Góngora, Goethe, Kierkegaard, Hölderlin, Michaux, Hopkins, Brontë, and Dickinson, as well as musical greats including Bach, Monteverdi, Purcell, and Schubert. The Second Seedtime is the vivid chronicle of one man's passionate engagement with the life of the mind, the spirit, and the natural world.
Biografie (Philippe Jaccottet)
Philippe Jaccottet wurde 1925 in Moudon (Westschweiz, Kanton Waadt) geboren. Schule und Universität besuchte er in Lausanne. Er hielt sich in Rom und Paris auf, bevor er 1953 nach Grignan (Südfrankreich, Département Drôme) zog, wo er bis heute zusammen mit der Malerin Anne-Marie Haesler lebt, die er im gleichen Jahr heiratete.§Jaccottet erhielt zahlreiche Preise, u. a. 1997 den Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis und im Jahr 2000 den Horst-Bienek-Preis für Lyrik. 2010 wird ihm der Große Schillerpreis verliehen.
