Die Metaphorik zyklischer Wiederkehr bei Philippe Jaccottet – Aufstieg aus dem Chthonischen ins Lichte Beitrag Ferdinand Simonis Comparatio, Volume 4 (2013), Issue 2, Page 239 - 270 [...] In his late poetry and aesthetics Philippe Jaccottet returns to a recurrant theme and crucial topic of his oeuvre, which he already explored in his earlier collection of Airs poems. What fascinates the poet is the motif of transient beauty and temporary happiness in the wider context of mortality, death and the passage of time. In his Cahier de verdure (1990), Après beaucoup d’années (1994) [...]