MOCQUOT Magdeleine : O.V. de Lubicz-Milosz

MOCQUOT Magdeleine (1910)

O.V. de Lubicz-Milosz, 1877-1939
68 mm.
Lubicz-Milosz was a French-Russian poet, born on May 28 mai 1877 in what is currently Belorussia and with Russian nationality.
His family came to France in 1889 when he was 12. He studies in Paris and specializes in Hebrew and Assyrian script. In 1899 he publishes his first book of poems "Le Poète des Décadences". He pursues a diplomatic career. His last publication was "La Clef de l'Apocalypse" in 1938. He died from a heart attack on March 2, 1939.
His best known poems were written in his younger years when he was considered as a decadent poet, with traditional, anti-modernist poems. For his later work he is considered also as a mystic poet with more personal poems in prose.