Chatterton and Dafnis

<p><em>Chatterton and Dafnis</em> brings together two emotionally resonant works by Alfred de Vigny exploring the fates of young men torn between artistic purity and a society indifferent to beauty. Chatterton dramatizes the final days of the historical English poet Thomas Chatterton a precocious genius crushed by poverty and neglect. Dafnis presents a pastoral figure who though rooted in classical tradition becomes a vessel for yearning sacrifice and lost innocence. With poetic intensity and philosophical insight both pieces interrogate the tension between imagination and mortality in a disenchanted age.</p><p>Alfred Victor de Vigny (1797-1863) was a French poet playwright and novelist. This volume contains Spanish translations of a play Chatterton and a novella Daphne.</p>