Francis Vielé-Griffin
Francis Vielé-Griffin (May 26, 1864 – November 12, 1937), was a French symbolist poet. He was born at Norfolk, Virginia, USA and was the son of Egbert Ludovicus Viele.
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Born | Norfolk, Virginia, US | 26 May 1864
Died | 12 November 1937 73) Bergerac | (aged
Occupation | Poet |
Genre | Symbolist |
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Vielé-Griffin was educated in France and divided his time between Paris and Touraine. He was a writer of vers libre and founded the highly influential journal Entretiens politiques et littéraires (1890–92).[1] His name will remain attached to the history of symbolism and vers-librism. His first collection, Cueille d'avril, appeared in 1885. He practiced a relaxed prosody, which did not take into account the obligatory alternation of masculine and feminine rhymes, the prohibition to rhyme a plural with a singular, replaces the rhyme with an assonance, if not neglected here and there the rhyme or assonancer:
- Ne croyez pas
- Pour ce qu'avril rit rose
- Dans les vergers
- Ou palit de l'exces voluptueux des fleurs
- Que toutes choses
- Sont selon nos gais coeurs
- Et qu'il n'est plus une soif a etancher.
Works
His volumes include:[1]
- Cueille d'avril (1885)
- Les Cygnes (1887; new series, 1892)
- La Chevauchée d'Yeldis (1893)
- Swanhilde, a dramatic poem (1894)
- Laus Veneris (1895), a volume of translations from Swinburne
- Poèmes et Poésies (1895), a collection containing much of his earlier work
- Phocas le jardinier (1898)
- La Légende ailee de Wieland le Forgeron (1899), a dramatic poem.
- L'Amour sacré (1903), poems
"Plus loin" (1906) "Voix d'Ionie" (1914) "La Rose au flat" (1922) "Le Livre des reines" (1929)
References
- Chisholm 1911, p. 50.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Viélé-Griffin, Francis". Encyclopædia Britannica. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 50.
External links
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- Poems by Francis Vielé-Griffin
- Une conquête morale (1907)
- Francis Vielé-Griffin on French Wiki
- Works by or about Francis Vielé-Griffin at Internet Archive
- Works by Francis Vielé-Griffin at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Jean Rousselot. Dictionnaire de la poesie francaise contemporaine 1968, Auge, Guillon, Hollier -Larousse, Mooreau et Cie.-Librairie Larousse, Paris