Francis Vielé Griffin - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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May 26, 1864 Norfolk, Virginia, United States Died on 12 Nov 1937 (aged 73)

French symbolist poet

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About 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. 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). 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.

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