Poem

Translation from Victor Hugo's "Feuilles d'Automne"tion

Title	Translation from Victor Hugo's "Feuilles d'Automne"tion
Author	Roger Casement

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
Some Poems of Roger Casement	1918	Print Collection	View Details

Publication Instance Details #3244

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	Some Poems of Roger Casement
Date of Publication	1918
Page Number(s)	25

Publication Overview

Translation	Is Multilingual	Explicit Irish Context?	Ekphrasis	Has Paratext?	Reference to News, Media or Technology
Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No

Details

Human Rights Issues	War HR & Colonisation/Colonial Legacies Indigenous Rights (incl. culture & language)
Irish Context	Colonization and Colonial Legacy (Ireland) Political Independence (Ireland)
Languages	English
Original Language	French
Original Author	Victor Hugo
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	Casement's translated poem is a version inspired by Victor Hugo's 1831 poetry collection Les Feuilles d'Automne. It refers to the struggle for independence of Greece, Ireland, and France. In a letter Roger Casement wrote to Gertrude Bannister in 1913, he argues that the poem was translated and rewritten to lambast Queen Victoria and that even though Hugo's poem was written in the past it "applies all the time."

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