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Eugène Roch
Hellénides. Prologue. – Les Désastres de Scio – Eucharis et Lasthénès. – La Vengeance. – Bozaris, ou le sang des Héllènes.
Paris, Pélicier, Libraire, Place du Palais-Royal. Mongie, Boulevard Poissonnière, No 18. 1823.
Library of the Hellenic Parliament
ROMANTIC POEMS BY Eugene Roch, print- ed by Firmin Didot for Pélicier Editions in Paris, in 1823. Inspired by the events of the early years of the Greek Revolution, these poems passionately evoke the sufferings of the war and the heroism of
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the Greeks. While not of an extremely high literary standard, such publications nevertheless spoke to the heart of the reading public and helped fuel the philhellenic movement.
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Helléniennes, ou Élégies sur la Grèce, suivies d’un Dithyrambe, et précédées d’une épitre a M. Alphonse de Lamartine. Deuxième édition.
Paris. F. M. Maurice, Libraire-Éditeur, Rue des Mathurins- Saint-Jacques, N0 1. 1825. Library of the Hellenic Parliament
JEAN-PIERRE GUILLAUME PAUTHI- ER (1801-1873) was a romantic poet and an Ori- entalist, with a special interest in Asian culture. This is a collection of long poems inspired by the Greek Revolution; also included is a dithyramb for Lord Byron’s death. Here in second edition, print- ed in 1825 by Le Normant et fils for F.M. Maurice
in Paris, Pauthier’s Elegies is a characteristic ex- ample of philhellenic poetry inspired by the Greek Revolution.
The frontispiece is adorned with a symbolic repre- sentation, with the warlike Athena Archegetis hold- ing a sword and a banner with the cross, leading the rebellious Greeks.