Ursula Bethell’s ‘November 1937’ and Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
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In his first edition of Ursula Bethell’s Collected Poems, Vincent O’Sullivan observes in an end-note to ‘November 1937’ that ‘[w]ritten across the side of the manuscript is the quotation “Aujourd’hui, avec moi, en paradis - quelle promptitude! quelle compagnie! quel séjour”- Bossuet.’ (1985, 106) In his second edition of the Collected Poems, O’Sullivan identifies the author of these words as Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, a ‘seventeenth-century French cleric and theologian’ (1997, 108), but the exact source of this quotation remains unknown.
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Bethell, Ursula. Collected Poems. Ed. Vincent O’Sullivan. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Bethell, Ursula. Collected Poems. Ed. Vincent O’Sullivan. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1997.
Bertrand, Louis. The Art of Suffering. London: Sheed and Ward, 1936.
Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne. Oeuvres Complètes. Ed. F. Lachet. Paris: Libraire de Louis Vivès, 1866.
Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne. Oraisons Funèbres. Ed. C. Aubert. Paris: Libraire Hachette et Cie, 1886.
Metford, J. C. J. The Christian Year. London: Thames and Hudson, 1991.
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