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Frédéric Mistral

Author

19th Century French Poet and Nobel Laureate

Frédéric Mistral (1830-1914) originally studied law, but soon after receiving his degree moved to Provençal and dedicated himself to poetry. Much of his poetry and work was dedicated to reviving Provençal. Mistral was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904.

 

The Memoirs of Frederic Mistral

The Memoirs of Frederic Mistral

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New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914 - 1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies. "I asked Ezra Pound for 'career advice,'" James Laughlin recalled. "He had been seeing my poems for months and had ruled them hopeless. He urged me to finish Harvard and then do 'something' useful."