biography
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Deschamps (de Saint-Amand), Emile
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pronunciation:
[dayshã]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1797–1871)
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| biography:
| Poet and essayist, born in Bourges, C France. In 1823 he founded, with Victor Hugo, the Muse française, the journal of the Romanticists, and the preface to his Etudes Françaises et etrangères (1828) formed a manifesto of the movement. He translated Shakespeare, Goethe, and Russian poets, as well as producing his own poems, Poésies (1842). Other works include several libretti, notably for Berlioz' Roméo et Juliette, and the prose works Contes physiologiques (1854) and Réalités fantastiques (1854). His brother Anton Deschamps (1800–69) experienced serious mental problems after translating Dante's La Divine Comédie, which explains the unequal quality of his verses written during periods of remission: Dernières Paroles (1835) and Résignation (1839). |
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