Magdalena Kowalska, “Balance of Litanic Invocations and Supplications in French Poems,” in: Discours religieux : langages, textes, traductions, ed. by Barbara Marczuk & Iwona Piechnik (Kraków: Biblioteka Jagiellońska, 2020).
The article discusses the issue of litanic verse as a system in which an attempt either
to strike a balance of intensity of invocations and supplications or, quite the contrary, to openly destroy this balance determines the stanzaic form of a poem. In the paper, the author focuses on French poems of Remy de Gourmont, Tristan Klingsor, Charles Baudelaire, Pierre de Ronsard, Marie-Louis-Auguste Demartin du Tyrac Marcellus, Gustave Le Vavasseur, Lazare de Selve, Jacques Roubaud and Li Romans dou Lis. The enumeration of litanic invocations is common, but there are also many ways in which the poets seek to extract the value of a supplication. When using it, they avoid constant supplicatory formula.