Background
Josep Sebastià Pons was born on November 5, 1886, in Ille-sur-Têt, France.
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Pons was educated at the University of Montpellier.
Josep Sebastià Pons was born on November 5, 1886, in Ille-sur-Têt, France.
Pons was educated at the University of Montpellier.
Josep Sebastià Pons wrote plays and prose, and most of his complete works can be found in volumes dedicated to each genre. In 1911 Pons published his first book of poems in Catalan: "Roses I Xiprers."
Fighting in World War I, he fell prisoner and spent most of the conflict confined in a prison camp in Curland, events echoed in the verses of "L'estel de L'escamot," published in 1921. From 1924 to 1936 he wrote the chronicle "Lettres Catalanes" at the Mercure de France, a French gazette and literary magazine.
He dedicated his entire extra-literary professional life to teaching: he was a high school professor in Guéret, Foix, and Angouleme, and from 1935 to 1953 he was a professor of Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Tolosa.
"Obra Poética," published in 1976, contains nearly all of Pons's poems, including complete reprints of his early volumes of poems, from his first book, to "Cambra d'Hivern," published in 1966, four years after his death.
Pons left unpublished and written in French his memoirs, which would be published in Catalan in 1977: "L'ocell tranquil. Autobiographical narration."
Many of Josep's poems express the love for his homeland of Roussillon and of his interest in the landscape. Pons was also extremely nostalgic and often wrote of the past and his own youth. Nevertheless, he would later write that evoking the past is essentially useless.
Josep was married to Helena.