La poésie hors d’elle Lamartine, un poète en Orient (textes-sources et transferts génériques)

The Voyage en Orient (1835) takes poetry out of itself. Anxious to break free of current lyrical conventions, Lamartine crafted a prose poem destined to renew the Western gaze. By looking for poetry in landscape, incorporating the traditions of Arabic poetry, meditating on the ages of poetry, and insisting on poetry’s political vocation and ethical reach, Lamartine made poetry confront the signs of its own otherness in order to better de-territorialise it.