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.

Francis Vielé-Griffin
Born(1864-05-26)26 May 1864
Norfolk, Virginia, US
Died12 November 1937(1937-11-12) (aged 73)
Bergerac
OccupationPoet
GenreSymbolist
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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
  1. 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.


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