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Jean Jules Verdenal (11 May 1890 – 2 May 1915) was a French medical officer who served, and was killed, during the First World War. Verdenal and his life remain cloaked in obscurity; the little we do know comes mainly from interviews with family members and several surviving letters.〔Primary sources: , , 〕 Verdenal was born in Pau, France, the son of Paul Verdenal, a medical doctor.〔Father: 〕 He had a talent for foreign languages.〔Languages: 〕〔Languages: 〕 He was athletically inclined.〔Athletic: 〕〔Athletic: 〕 Verdenal as a student was interested in literature and poetry and possessed copies of Stéphane Mallarmé's ''Poésies'' and of Jules Laforgue's ''Poésies'' and ''Moralités Légendaires.''〔Personal library: 〕〔Personal library: 〕 It was perhaps Verdenal's literary inclinations that led him to become friends with American poet T.S. Eliot, whom he met in 1910 at the Sorbonne. After they parted ways, Verdenal and Eliot corresponded through letters.〔Letters: None of Eliot's letters to Verdenal survive, but seven letters written by Verdenal to Eliot were donated in 1967 to Harvard University's Houghton Library by Theresa (Garrett) Eliot, the widow of T.S. Eliot's older brother, Henry Ware Eliot Jr. These letters, dating between July 1911 and December 1912, have been published in their original French and in English translations by John Weightman . Both James Miller and Carole Seymour-Jones have provided notes about the affection between Verdenal and Eliot displayed in the letters .〕 Verdenal was killed on 2 May 1915 while treating a wounded man on the battlefield.〔Battlefield death: 〕〔Perinot, 2008, pp 49–50〕〔Perinot, 2011, p 44〕 This was just a week into the Gallipoli Campaign and a few days shy of his twenty-fifth birthday. == Influence of Verdenal on Eliot == In 1917, Eliot dedicated to Verdenal his first volume of poetry, ''Prufrock and Other Observations'', and added the Dante epigraph to the 1925 edition:〔Dedication: 〕 For Jean Verdenal, 1889–1915 ''mort aux Dardanelles'' ''Or puoi la quantitate '' ''Comprender dell' amor ch'a te mi scalda,'' ''Quando dismento nostra vanitate,'' ''Trattando l'ombre come cosa salda.'' (can you understand the quantity of love that warms me towards you, so that I forget our vanity, and treat the shadows like the solid thing. ) Imagery reminiscent of Verdenal can also be found in other works, such as ''The Waste Land''. Although he died young and his potential as a great poet was unrealised, Verdenal's memory is preserved in the work of his friend. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jean Jules Verdenal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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